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Histories of Dirt : Media and Urban Life in Colonial and Postcolonial Lagos /
"HISTORIES OF DIRT IN WEST AFRICA is a historical and cultural approach to the study of dirt in relation to public health, governance, and daily life in urban West Africa. While in the Anglophone world dirt is evoked to denote a problem, Stephanie Newell broadens dirt as an interpretive categor...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2020.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Histories of dirt
- European insanitary nuisances
- Malaria: lines in the dirt
- African newspapers, the 'great unofficial public', and plague in Colonial Lagos
- Screening dirt: public health movies in Colonial Nigeria and rural spectatorship in the 1930s and 1940s
- Methods, unsound methods, no methods at all?
- Popular perceptions of 'dirty' in multicultural Lagos
- Remembering waste
- City sexualities: negotiating homophobia
- Mediated publics, uncontrollable audiences.