Browsing Research Articles (Anthropology, Archaeology and Development Studies) by Subject "Johannesburg"

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'Growing up' and 'moving up': metaphors that legitimise upward social mobility in Soweto

Krige, Detlev (Routledge, 2015-01)

A growing body of research on the middle classes in South Africa is concerned with patters of consumption while fewer scholars engage with the inequality that accompanies greater social differentiation. Little existing ...
‘We are running for a living’ : work, leisure and speculative accumulation in an underground numbers lottery in Johannesburg

Krige, Detlev (Taylor & Francis, 2011)

In this paper the author presents a historically-informed ethnography of a Johannesburg underground lottery. The meaning of this lottery is tied up with the local-level sociological organisation of lottery banks and the ...

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