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Author:   Brad Weiss
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.590kg
ISBN:  

9780253325945

ISBN 10:   0253325943
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   04 May 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Unknown
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Popular Practices and Neoliberal Dilemmas in Arusha; 1. Themes and Theories: Popular Culture in Africa and Elsewhere; 2. Enacting the Invincible: Youthful Performance in Town; Portraits 1: Bad Boyz Barbers; 3. Thug Realism: Inhabiting Spaces of Masculine Fantasy; Portraits 2: Aspiration; 4. The Barber in Pain: Consciousness, Affliction, and Alterity; Portraits 3: Uncertain Prospects; 5. Gender (In)Visible: Contests of Style; 6. Learning from Your Surroundings: Watching Television and Social Participation; 7. Chronic Mobb Asks a Blessing: Apocalyptic Hip Hop and the Global Crisis; ConclusionNotes; References; Index

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Dr. Weiss has chosen a very difficult group to study - young men - but also a group about which we urgently need to know much more, since they are increasingly seen, in Africa and elsewhere, as a problem-group that is potentially dangerous... A seminal analysis of the global-local conundrum. Peter Geschiere, University of Amsterdam

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Brad Weiss is Professor of Anthropology at the College of William and Mary. He is author of The Making and Unmaking of the Haya Lived World: Consumption and Commoditization in Everyday Practice and Sacred Trees, Bitter Harvests: Globalizing Coffee in Colonial Northwest Tanganyika and editor of Producing African Futures: Ritual and Reproduction in a Neoliberal Age.

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