Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Transforming Cape Town: Volume 19

Transforming Cape Town: Volume 19

Besteman, Catherine

Paperback

Series: California Public Anthropology

African HistoryAnthropologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0520256719
ISBN13: 9780520256712
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Sep 2 2008
Pages: 312
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.73 Width: 6.06 Depth: 8.96
Language: English
This study provides a window into the lives of ordinary South Africans more than ten years after the end of apartheid, with the promises of the democracy movement remaining largely unfulfilled. Catherine Besteman explores the emotional and personal aspects of the transition to black majority rule by homing in on intimate questions of love, family, and community and capturing the complex, sometimes contradictory voices of a wide variety of Capetonians. Her evaluation of the physical and psychic costs to individuals involved in working for social change is grounded in the experiences of the participants and illu-minates two overarching dimensions of life in Cape Town: the aggregate forces determined to maintain the apartheid-era status quo, and the grassroots efforts to effect social change.

Also in

Anthropology

View All