TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ross, Robert
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023//
TI  - Things change: black material culture and the development of a consumer society in South Africa, 1800–2020
T3  - Afrika-Studiecentrum series volume 43
PB  - Brill
CY  - Leiden
KW  - Anti-apartheid movements
KW  - South Africa
KW  - Consumer goods
KW  - History
KW  - Economic anthropology
AB  - 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. Thus they claimed modernity, respectability and political inclusion. This book is the first systematic analysis of this development. It argues that the desire to possess such goods formed a major part of the drive behind the anti-apartheid struggle, and that the demand to consume has significantly influenced both the economy and the politics of the country
SN  - 9789004543751
UR  - https://brill.com/abstract/title/64694
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004543751
DO  - 10.1163/9789004543751
LA  - English
N1  - by Robert Ross
ID  - 1844951901
ER  -