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Conspicuous consumption in Africa /

From early department stores in Cape Town to gendered histories of sartorial success in urban Togo, contestations over expense accounts at an apartheid state enterprise, elite wealth and political corruption in Angola and Zambia, the role of popular religion in the political intransigence of Jacob Z...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Posel, Deborah (Editor ), Van Wyk, Ilana, 1977- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2019.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Thinking with Veblen : case studies from Africa's past and present / Deborah Posel and Ilana van Wyk -- Changes in the order of things : department stores and the making of modern Cape Town / Deborah Posel -- Conspicuously public : gendered histories of sartorial and social success in urban Togo / Nina Sylvanus -- Etienne Rousseau, broedertwis and the politics of consumption within Afrikanerdom / Stephen Sparks -- Cycling consumption : political power and elite wealth in Angola / Claudia Gastrow -- Chiluba's trunks : consumption, excess and the body politic in Zambia / Karen Tranberg Hansen -- Jacob Zuma's shamelessness : conspicuous consumption, politics and religion / Ilana van Wyk -- Precarious 'bigness' : a 'big man', his women and his funeral in Cameroon / Rogers Orock -- Young men of leisure? Youth, conspicuous consumption and the performativity of dress in Niger / Adeline Masquelier -- Booty on fire : looking at izikhothane with Thorstein Veblen / Jabulani G Mnisi -- Conspicuous queer consumption : emulation and honour in the pink map / Bradley Rink -- The politics and moral economy of middle-class consumption in South Africa / Sophie Chevalier -- Marigold beads : who needs diamonds?! / Joni Brenner and Pamila Gupta. 
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