Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Illustrations
- 1 Thinking With Veblen: Case Studies From Africa's Past and Present
- 2 Changes in the Order of Things: Department Stores and the Making of Modern Cape Town
- 3 Conspicuously Public: Gendered Histories of Sartorial and Social Success in Urban Togo
- 4 Etienne Rousseau, Broedertwis and the Politics of Consumption Within Afrikanerdom
- 5 Recycling Consumption: Political Power and Elite Wealth in Angola
- 6 Chiluba's Trunks: Consumption, Excess and the Body Politic in Zambia
- 7 Jacob Zuma's Shamelessness: Conspicuous Consumption, Politics and Religion
- 8 Precarious ‘Bigness’: a ‘Big Man’, His Women and His Funeral in Cameroon
- 9 Young Men of Leisure? Youth, Conspicuous Consumption and the Performativity of Dress in Niger
- 10 Booty on Fire: Looking at Izikhothane With Thorstein Veblen
- 11 Conspicuous Queer Consumption: Emulation and Honour in the Pink Map
- 12 The Politics and Moral Economy of Middle-Class Consumption in South Africa
- 13 Marigold Beads: Who Needs Diamonds?!
- Contributors
- Index
Contributors
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 October 2019
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Illustrations
- 1 Thinking With Veblen: Case Studies From Africa's Past and Present
- 2 Changes in the Order of Things: Department Stores and the Making of Modern Cape Town
- 3 Conspicuously Public: Gendered Histories of Sartorial and Social Success in Urban Togo
- 4 Etienne Rousseau, Broedertwis and the Politics of Consumption Within Afrikanerdom
- 5 Recycling Consumption: Political Power and Elite Wealth in Angola
- 6 Chiluba's Trunks: Consumption, Excess and the Body Politic in Zambia
- 7 Jacob Zuma's Shamelessness: Conspicuous Consumption, Politics and Religion
- 8 Precarious ‘Bigness’: a ‘Big Man’, His Women and His Funeral in Cameroon
- 9 Young Men of Leisure? Youth, Conspicuous Consumption and the Performativity of Dress in Niger
- 10 Booty on Fire: Looking at Izikhothane With Thorstein Veblen
- 11 Conspicuous Queer Consumption: Emulation and Honour in the Pink Map
- 12 The Politics and Moral Economy of Middle-Class Consumption in South Africa
- 13 Marigold Beads: Who Needs Diamonds?!
- Contributors
- Index
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- Conspicuous Consumption in Africa , pp. 231 - 234Publisher: Wits University PressPrint publication year: 2019