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  • 1
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    Conspicuous consumption in Africa (2019)
    Johannesburg : Wits University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781776143658
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (240 pages)
    DDC: 306.3096
    RVK:
    LC 10465
    RVK:
    MS 5560
    Keywords: Soziale Identität ; Verbraucherverhalten ; Verbrauch ; Soziale Stellung ; Elite ; Consumption (Economics) ; Consumption (Economics) Social aspects ; Economic anthropology ; Material culture ; Afrika ; Südafrika ; Togo ; Angola ; Sambia ; Kamerun ; Niger
    Abstract: From early department stores in Cape Town to gendered histories of sartorial success in urban Togo, contestations over expense accounts at an apartheid state enterprise, elite wealth and political corruption in Angola and Zambia, the role of popular religion in the political intransigence of Jacob Zuma, funerals of big men in Cameroon, youth cultures of consumption in Niger and South Africa, queer consumption in Cape Town, middle-class food consumption in Durban and the consumption of luxury handcrafted beads, this collection of essays explores the ways in which conspicuous consumption is foregrounded in various African contexts and historical moments. In 1899, Thorstein Veblen coined the phrase 'conspicuous consumption' to describe status-seeking in the obscenely unequal world of late-nineteenth century America. Many of the aspects he described in The Theory of the Leisure Class are still evident in our world today. While Veblen's crude denunciation of material extravagance finds echoes in media exposés about the lifestyles of the rich worldwide, it is particularly recognisable in reporting on Africa. Here, images of conspicuous consumption have long circulated in local and global media as indictments of political corruption and signs of moral depravity. The essays in Conspicuous Consumption in Africa put Veblen's concept under robust critical scrutiny, drawing on theorists like Mbembe, Guyer and Bayart by way of critique or addition. They delve into the pleasures, stresses and challenges of consuming in its religious, generational, gendered and racialised aspects, revealing conspicuous consumption as a layered set of practices, textures and relations. The authors resist the trap of easy moralisation, pointing to more complex ethical and political registers of analysis and judgement. This volume shows how central and revealing conspicuous consumption can be to fathoming the history of Africa's projects of modernity, and their global lineages and legacies. In its grounded, up-close case studies, it is likely to feed into current public debates on the nature and future of African societies - South African society in particular.
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    A history of African popular culture (2018)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781139061766
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 201 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: New approaches to African history 11
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Barber, Karin 1949- A history of African popular culture
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Barber, Karin 1949- A history of African popular culture
    DDC: 306.0967
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    LB 40465
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    LB 24465
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    EP 20007
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    MR 7100
    Keywords: Geschichte ; Alltagskultur ; Geschichtswissenschaft ; Afrika
    Abstract: Popular culture in Africa is the product of everyday life: the unofficial, the non-canonical. And it is the dynamism of this culture that makes Africa what it is. In this book, Karin Barber offers a journey through the history of music, theatre, fiction, song, dance, poetry, and film from the seventeenth century to the present day. From satires created by those living in West African coastal towns in the era of the slave trade, to the poetry and fiction of townships and mine compounds in South Africa, and from today's East African streets where Swahili hip hop artists gather to the juggernaut of the Nollywood film industry, this book weaves together a wealth of sites and scenes of cultural production. In doing so, it provides an ideal text for students and researchers seeking to learn more about the diversity, specificity and vibrancy of popular cultural forms in African history.
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    URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139061766
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  • 3
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    Africans and the politics of popular culture (2009)
    Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781580467094
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 333 pages)
    DDC: 306.2096
    RVK:
    LB 40465
    Keywords: Massenkultur ; Kultur ; Politik ; Afrika ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift
    Abstract: This anthology provides insightful data on and discussions of a wide array of popular cultural manifestations and theoretical perspectives, covering such issues as kinship, religion, conflict resolution, music, cinema, drama, and literary texts. The issues cohere around the understanding that culture is situational and political. Going beyond merely challenging popular stereotypes and representations of Africans and African related practices in various outlets, the book reveals how popular cultural practices are instruments that have been manipulated for personal and collective survival. The book is distinctive in its codification and explication of aspects of popular practices that are based on data from countries in Africa, Europe, and the Americas that showcase cultural negotiations either with reference to how notions, values, norms, and images of Africans have been packaged and exploited over the years or how popular cultures are used as tools of resistance and agitation by the various focal groups that are discussed. The topics are presented and illustrated in ways easily accessible to readers of all backgrounds. Toyin Falola is the Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor in History at the University of Texas at Austin as well as a University Distinguished Teaching Professor. Augustine Agwuele is an assistant professor of linguistics in the Department of Anthropology, Texas State University, San Marcos. Contributors: Arinpe Adejumo, Augustine Agwuele, Antoinette Tidjani Alou, Maurice N. Amutabi, Tokunbo A. Ayoola, Nicholas M. Creary, Toyin Falola, Celeste A. Fisher, Denise Amy-Rose Forbes-Erickson, Hetty ter Haar, Debra L. Klein, Emmanuel M. Mbah, Sarah Steinbock-Pratt, and Asonzeh Ukah.
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    The expansive moment : the rise of social anthropology in Britain and Africa, 1918-1970 (1995)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511557927
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vii, 235 pages)
    DDC: 306/.0941
    RVK:
    MS 9600
    RVK:
    LB 25465
    RVK:
    LB 25190
    Keywords: Geschichte 1918-1970 ; Ethnologie ; Afrika ; Großbritannien
    Abstract: Jack Goody's book explores the development of the discipline of social anthropology through its key practitioners and how far its concerns interacted with the political and ideological debate of the interwar years. It is a study of the different ideological and intellectual approaches adopted by the emerging subject of social anthropology and how far these views were incorporated into and defined by the structures and institutions in which they developed. However it is also an analysis of how far the subject was created by its own response to key issues of the time: colonialism - specifically Africa, anti-Semitism and communism. Goody's approach is characteristically personal: Malinowski dominates the discussion, as well as Fortes, Radcliffe-Brown and Evans-Pritchard, and his own experience, gathered over a wide-ranging life of fieldwork informs the conclusion of the book.
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    URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511557927
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