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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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Additional Authors
  • Posel, Deborah,
  • Wyk, Ilana van,
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