Poverty, possessions and proper living : constructing and contesting propriety in Soweto and Lusaka City

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dc.contributor.advisorSpiegel, Mugsyen_ZA
dc.contributor.advisorFrankental, Sallyen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorMeintjes, Helenen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2015-01-01T12:20:18Z
dc.date.available2015-01-01T12:20:18Z
dc.date.issued2000en_ZA
dc.descriptionBibliography: 131-137.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractRecent material culture theory points out how material possessions are woven into the fabric of lives, shaping social relations and texturing people's meanings and interpretation of their world. This study embarks on exploring aspects of this objected fabric, in the context of urban working black South Africans, living in three different township suburbs in Gauteng, in four differing housing circumstances, in the mid-1990s and in the midst of much uncertainty of what the future might hold for poor urban residents. Drawing on participant observation, ethnographic interviews, and household and appliance ownership surveys, the study explores the ways in which domestic objects- appliances specifically - function symbolically for a set of people living in Soweto formal houses, backyard shacks, an informal settlement and in Lusaka City site-and -service settlement on the West Rand, in Gauteng, South Africa. I examine symbolic constructions and creations in these people's homes, gleaning some of the meaning people attributed to particular modes of equipping their homes, and how aspects of their image of themselves and each other were presented, acted out, created, 'conversationed', contested and negotiated through material goods.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationMeintjes, H. (2000). <i>Poverty, possessions and proper living : constructing and contesting propriety in Soweto and Lusaka City</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Social Anthropology. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10813en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationMeintjes, Helen. <i>"Poverty, possessions and proper living : constructing and contesting propriety in Soweto and Lusaka City."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Social Anthropology, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10813en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationMeintjes, H. 2000. Poverty, possessions and proper living : constructing and contesting propriety in Soweto and Lusaka City. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Meintjes, Helen AB - Recent material culture theory points out how material possessions are woven into the fabric of lives, shaping social relations and texturing people's meanings and interpretation of their world. This study embarks on exploring aspects of this objected fabric, in the context of urban working black South Africans, living in three different township suburbs in Gauteng, in four differing housing circumstances, in the mid-1990s and in the midst of much uncertainty of what the future might hold for poor urban residents. Drawing on participant observation, ethnographic interviews, and household and appliance ownership surveys, the study explores the ways in which domestic objects- appliances specifically - function symbolically for a set of people living in Soweto formal houses, backyard shacks, an informal settlement and in Lusaka City site-and -service settlement on the West Rand, in Gauteng, South Africa. I examine symbolic constructions and creations in these people's homes, gleaning some of the meaning people attributed to particular modes of equipping their homes, and how aspects of their image of themselves and each other were presented, acted out, created, 'conversationed', contested and negotiated through material goods. DA - 2000 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2000 T1 - Poverty, possessions and proper living : constructing and contesting propriety in Soweto and Lusaka City TI - Poverty, possessions and proper living : constructing and contesting propriety in Soweto and Lusaka City UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10813 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/10813
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationMeintjes H. Poverty, possessions and proper living : constructing and contesting propriety in Soweto and Lusaka City. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Social Anthropology, 2000 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10813en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentSocial Anthropologyen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherSocial Anthropologyen_ZA
dc.titlePoverty, possessions and proper living : constructing and contesting propriety in Soweto and Lusaka Cityen_ZA
dc.typeMaster Thesis
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