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Author Schubert, Jon, 1982- author.

Title Working the system : a political ethnography of the new Angola / Jon Schubert
Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017

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Contents Introduction : working the system in boomtown Africa -- 2002, year zero : the foundations of the new Angola -- Sambizanga : the affects of place and memory -- Angolanidade : mediating urbanity through race and class -- Cunhas : situational kinship and everyday authority -- A culture of immediatism : co-optation and complicity -- Against the system, within the system : the parameters of the political
Summary Working the System offers key insights into the politics of the everyday in twenty-first-century dominant party and neo-authoritarian regimes in Africa and elsewhere. Detailing the many ways ordinary Angolans fashion their relationships with the ..
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Ethnology -- Angola.
Politics and culture -- Angola
Power (Social sciences) -- Angola
Postwar reconstruction -- Social aspects -- Angola
HISTORY -- Africa -- Central.
HISTORY -- Africa -- South -- General.
Ethnology
Politics and culture
Power (Social sciences)
SUBJECT Angola -- History -- 2002- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2003003001
Subject Angola
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017004739
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