Conspicuous consumption in Africa
edited by Deborah Posel and Ilana van Wyk
| Year of publication: |
2019
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| Other Persons: | Posel, Deborah (ed.) ; Van Wyk, Ilana (ed.) |
| Publisher: |
2019: Johannesburg : Wits University Press |
| Subject: | Konsum | Consumption | Konsumgesellschaft | Consumer society | Konsumentenverhalten | Consumer behaviour | Sozialer Status | Social status | Soziale Schicht | Social class | Sozialer Wandel | Social change | Afrika | Africa | Südafrika | Togo | Angola | Sambia | Kamerun | Niger | Verbrauch | Soziale Stellung | Elite | Wohlstand | Soziale Identität | Macht | Wirtschaftssoziologie |
| Description of contents: | Table of Contents [gbv.de] |
| Extent: | 240 Seiten, 8 Bildtafeln Illustrationen, Portraits 25 cm |
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| Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index 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 |
| ISBN: | 1-77614-364-7 ; 978-1-77614-364-1 ; 978-1-77614-365-8 ; 978-1-77614-366-5 ; 978-1-77614-367-2 |
| Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
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