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    Crime, Consumption, and Citizenship in Côte d'Ivoire

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    In Côte d'Ivoire, appearing modern is so important for success that many young men deplete their already meager resources to project an illusion of wealth in a fantastic display of Western imitation, spending far more than they can afford on brand name clothing, accessories, technology, and a robust nightlife. Such imitation, however, is not primarily meant to deceive—rather, as Sasha Newell ... Read more

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  • Migration and Economy

    Global and Local Dynamics

    Series series Society for Economic Anthropology Monograph Series
    Trager and her coauthors focus on migration not as a single event but as a dynamic process that responds to and is shaped by broader economic, cultural and social forces. Individual essays consider issues of international and internal migration, of voluntary migration and forced movements due to civil conflicts and environmental degradation, and of macro-level forces and micro-level institutions. ... Read more

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  • Of Hoarding and Housekeeping

    Material Kinship and Domestic Space in Anthropological Perspective

    Edited by Sasha Newell ...
    Series Book 13 - Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement
    Hoarding has largely been approached from a psychological and universal perspective, and decluttering from an aesthetic and ecological one, while little work has been done to think about the cultural and global economic aspects of these phenomena. Of Hoarding and Housekeeping provides an anthropological, global, and comparative angle to the understanding of hoarding and decluttering using cases ... Read more

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  • Out of the Dark Night

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  • Capitalism

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  • Falling Behind

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