Title Statements
- Full title :Conspicuous consumption in Africa / edited by Deborah Posel and Ilana Van Wyk.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:©2019.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Wits University Press
- Place of Publication:Johannesburg
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2019.
The Physical Object
- Description:240 pages, 8 pages de planche non numérotées : : illustrations, portraits ; : 25 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1776143647, 9781776143641
- oclc:on1154540890
- LC Classification:HC800.Z9
- Dewey Decimal:339.47
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…
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