Description
| Product ID: | 9781487524333 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | CA |
| Series: | Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom |
| Title: | From Water to Wine |
| Subtitle: | Becoming Middle Class in Angola |
| Authors: | Author: Jess Auerbach |
| Page Count: | 256 |
| Subjects: | Urban communities, Urban communities, Ethnic studies, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Ethnic studies, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Part monograph, part methods handbook, and including poetry, photos and other media, this highly original work explores the emergent middle class in Angola through the lens of the senses. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | University of Toronto Press |
| Publisher Name: | University of Toronto Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-02-18 |
