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An ethnographic study that reveals how financial self-help groups (burial societies and credit groups) are islands of hope for Xhosa migrants living in the townships and squatter camps of Cape Town, South Africa. This work examines the urban poor's day-to-day struggles over money in post-aparth...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bähre, Erik
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.
Colección:Afrika-Studiecentrum series ; v. 8.
Temas:
Xhosa (African people) > South Africa > Cape Town > Economic conditions.
Mutual funds > South Africa > Cape Town.
Xhosa (Peuple d'Afrique) > Afrique du Sud > Le Cap > Conditions économiques.
COMPUTERS > Web > General.
COMPUTERS > Networking > Intranets & Extranets.
Mutual funds
Xhosa (African people) > Economic conditions
South Africa > Cape Town
dissertations.
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Thèses et écrits académiques.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:An ethnographic study that reveals how financial self-help groups (burial societies and credit groups) are islands of hope for Xhosa migrants living in the townships and squatter camps of Cape Town, South Africa. This work examines the urban poor's day-to-day struggles over money in post-apartheid South Africa.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (x, 192 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-189) and index.
ISBN:9789047419600
904741960X
ISSN:1570-9310 ;

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