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Informationen zum Autor Brad Weiss is Professor of Anthropology at the College of William and Mary. He is author of The Making and Unmaking of the Haya Lived World: Consumption and Commoditization in Everyday Practice and Sacred Trees, Bitter Harvests: Globalizing Coffee in Colonial Northwest Tanganyika and editor of Producing African Futures: Ritual and Reproduction in a Neoliberal Age. Klappentext Brad Weiss is Professor of Anthropology at the College of William and Mary. He is author of The Making and Unmaking of the Haya Lived World: Consumption and Commoditization in Everyday Practice and Sacred Trees, Bitter Harvests: Globalizing Coffee in Colonial Northwest Tanganyika and editor of Producing African Futures: Ritual and Reproduction in a Neoliberal Age. Zusammenfassung Urban youth and popular cultural practices in East Africa Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Popular Practices and Neoliberal Dilemmas in Arusha 1. Themes and Theories: Popular Culture in Africa and Elsewhere 2. Enacting the Invincible: Youthful Performance in Town Portraits 1: Bad Boyz Barbers 3. Thug Realism: Inhabiting Spaces of Masculine Fantasy Portraits 2: Aspiration 4. The Barber in Pain: Consciousness, Affliction, and Alterity Portraits 3: Uncertain Prospects 5. Gender (In)Visible: Contests of Style 6. Learning from Your Surroundings: Watching Television and Social Participation 7. Chronic Mobb Asks a Blessing: Apocalyptic Hip Hop and the Global Crisis Conclusion Notes References Index
