Conspicuous consumption in Africa /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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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.