From water to wine : becoming middle class in Angola /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Toronto ; Buffalo ; London :
University of Toronto Press,
[2020]
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| Series: | Teaching culture.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Images
- Acknowledgments
- Interview Report
- Preface
- Proprioception
- INTRODUCTION: Where Petrol Is Cheaper than Water: Life in Capitalismo selvagem
- The Back Story
- Representing "Africa"?
- On Making Sense in the Writing
- What the Book Is Actually About
- How the Research Was Done
- How to Read This Book
- Core Concepts
- The Angolan Middle Class
- Capitalismo selvagem
- Smell
- CHAPTER 1: The Smell of Success: Perfume, Beauty, Sweat, Oil
- Read with Your Nose
- Conditioning the Air: Space and Control
- Class, Perfume, Dream: Aspiration and Authenticity
- Recording Fieldwork: Notes, Objects, Structured Observations of Space
- Notes
- Objects
- Structured Observations of Space
- Touch
- CHAPTER 2: Touch and the Tactile: The Textures of Scouting in Capitalismo selvagem
- Seeing through the Skin
- Making the Mafia
- Stitching Pano Pants
- Catching Slipping Children
- Lighting the Fire as Service
- Building the New Man
- Choosing Appropriate T-Shirts
- Practicing Peace
- Poems 1
- Fatherhood
- Radio Building
- Seven Women
- Buying Cloth
- Fátima's Mother, on Christmas Day 2013
- The Cuban Help
- The Driver
- Taste
- CHAPTER 3: Changing Tastes: Palates and the Possible
- Recipes
- Funge
- Calulu (grilled fish)
- Bolo de Arroz (rice cake)
- The Man Who Made Cake, Dona Maria, and the Sushi Chef
- Oral Histories: The Stories of Two Lives
- Dono Oniko
- Lino Espelanga
- Photo Essays
- Photo Essay 1: The Flavors of Peace
- Photo Essay 2: Choices and Consumption
- Sound
- CHAPTER 4: Music, Fofoca, and the News: Sound, Space, and Orientation
- Sound Readings: Spectrographs, Annotation, Language
- Sound
- Soundscape
- Sound Blindness
- Music and Noise
- Voice
- Listening
- Translation
- Body Language/Gesture
- Silence
- Cold War Echoes: Higher Education, Ideology, and Contested Duties
- Universities Out of the Dust
- The Angolan Higher Education Sector
- Universidade Katyavala Bwila
- Instituto Superior Jean Piaget de Benguela
- On Voice
- Listening, Speaking, and Thinking through the Cold War
- Critical Thinking in Capitalismo selvagem
- Searching for a Scientific Identity
- Sound, Structure, and Imagination
- Poems 2
- Estrelinha (Little Star)
- Birds on Campus
- João, Collapsing
- Dona Maria Serving Soup
- Dona Inês
- Two Photographers
- Cinema Church
- Yoga Teacher
- Photo Essays
- Photo Essay 3: Childhoods
- Photo Essay 4: Leisure
- Sight
- CHAPTER 5: National Rebranding
- The Selfie and the Other
- National Rebranding: Guarantee Your Children a Better Past
- Biopolitical Screens: Frames of Vision
- Laughing on the Internet
- Insta Lies or Insta Truths?
- Fieldwork Ethics: Seven Afterimages
- 1. Mercury
- 2. Dinner
- 3. Photograph of a Little Girl
- 4. Helping Strangers
- 5. Being Helped by a Stranger
- 6. Travel and Privilege
- 7. Malaria