Conspicuous consumption in Africa /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Posel, Deborah (Editor), Van Wyk, Ilana, 1977- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2019.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.