Money and violence : financial self-help groups in a South African township / / by Erik Bähre.

This ethnographic study reveals how financial self-help groups (burial societies and credit groups) are islands of hope for Xhosa migrants living in the townships and squatter camps of Cape Town, South Africa. Many are caught up in a sea of insecurity, unemployment, murder, rape, AIDS, and social co...

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Superior document:Afrika-Studiecentrum series, v. 8
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Year of Publication:2007
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Afrika-Studiecentrum series ; v. 8.
Physical Description:1 online resource (203 p.)
Notes:Revised thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Amsterdam, [2002].
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