Things Change : : Black Material Culture and the Development of a Consumer Society in South Africa, 1800-2020.
"Since the early nineteenth century, the things which Black South Africans have had in their homes have changed completely. They have adopted things like tables, chairs, knives, forks, spoons, plates, cups and saucers, iron pots, beds, blankets, European clothing, and later electronic apparatus...
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| Superior document: | Afrika-Studiecentrum Series ; v.43 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boston : : BRILL,, 2023. ©2023. |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Afrika-Studiecentrum Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (199 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Pre-colonial trade and the conspicuous : consumption of persons
- The colonial countryside : pots, blankets, and guns
- "White men did not like you to own nice things" : the world of the cities
- "Keeping up with the Kumalos" : the discovery of the African market
- High apartheid and the completion of the transformation
- Epilogue : a consumer society.