Sipho Sithole

Maye! Maye! (eBook, ePUB)

The History and Heritage of the Kwa Mai Mai Market

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book analyses Johannesburg's Kwa Mai Mai market, which has experienced numerous national transformations. It explores how the Kwa Mai Mai community reversed roles and took control of the means of production from the dominant class through their heightened cultural consciousness.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040133255
• Artikelnr.: 72275794

Autorenporträt

Sipho Sithole is Cultural Anthropologist and Research Fellow at the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study (University of Johannesburg). He holds a PhD degree in Anthropology from the University of the Witwatersrand. His research interests are music and society, culture and heritage, marginality and belonging, migration and integration, post coloniality and re-imagining, as well as the creative economy.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Prologue
1. Maye! Maye!
2. Wrapped in gold
3. Condemned
4. A Bantu affair
5. Kwa Mai Mai: Not your usual hostel
6. Meet the cultural entrepreneurs
7. Converts and diviners at the crossroads
8. At loggerheads
9. Betrayed, but not defeated
10. Formalising the informal?
11. Conclusion
Notes
References
Index