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Conspicuous consumption in Africa /
- Title
- Conspicuous consumption in Africa / edited by Deborah Posel and Ilana Van Wyk.
- Publication
- Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2019.
- ©2019
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- Description
- 240 pages : illustrations, portraits; 25 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Thinking with Veblen : case studies from Africa's past and present -- Changes in the order of things : department stores and the making of modern Cape Town -- Conspicuously public : gendered histories of sartorial and social success in urban Togo -- Etienne Rousseau, broedertwis and the politics of consumption within Afrikanerdom. -- Cycling consumption : political power and elite wealth in Angola -- Chiluba's trunks : consumption, excess and the body politic in Zambia -- Jacob Zuma's shamelessness : conspicuous consumption, politics and religion -- Precarious 'bigness' : a 'big man', his women and his funeral in Cameroon -- Young men of leisure? Youth, conspicuous consumption and the performativity of dress in Niger -- Booty on fire : looking at izikhothane with Thorstein Veblen -- conspicuous queer consumption : emulation and honour in the pink map -- The politics and moral economy of middle-class consumption in South Africa -- Marigold beads : who needs diamonds.
- ISBN
- 1776143647 (paperback)
- 9781776143641 (paperback)
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library