From Water to Wine : Becoming Middle Class in Angola / Jess Auerbach.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Auerbach, Jess, Author.

Series:

Teaching culture.

Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle class--Angola.

Middle class.

Angola--Social life and customs--21st century.

Angola.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 230 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

From Water to Wine explores how Angola has changed since the end of its civil war in 2002. Its focus is on the middle class—defined as those with a house, a car, and an education—and their consumption, aspirations, and hopes for their families. It takes as its starting point "what is working in Angola?" rather than "what is going wrong?" and makes a deliberate, political choice to give attention to beauty and happiness in everyday life in a country that has had an unusually troubled history. Each chapter focuses on one of the five senses, with the introduction and conclusion provoking reflection on proprioception (or kinesthesia) and curiosity. Various media are employed—poetry, recipes, photos, comics, and other textual experiments—to engage readers and their senses. Written for a broad audience, this text is an excellent addition to the study of Africa, the lusophone world, international development, sensory ethnography, and ethnographic writing.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Images

Acknowledgments

Interview Report

Preface

~ Proprioception ~

~ Smell ~

~ Touch ~

~ Taste ~

~ Sound ~

~ Sight ~

~ Curiosity ~

Notes

Indicative Bibliography

References

Index

Teaching Culture

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

1-4875-3410-8

OCLC:

1123170033