recently saw this book:
Domesticating the World
African Consumerism and the Genealogies of Globalization
Jeremy Prestholdt
looks like stuff i have not encountered at all before. if it holds water might have to move some stuff around in my head to accommodate these accounts... anyone read or know about it?
any other anthropological concerns, issues, points of interest, recommendations, BS calls, beef, related or unrelated to above welcome.
Domesticating the World
African Consumerism and the Genealogies of Globalization
Jeremy Prestholdt
boldly unsettles the idea of globalization as a recent phenomenon—and one driven solely by Western interests—by offering a compelling new perspective on global interconnectivity in the nineteenth century. Jeremy Prestholdt examines East African consumers' changing desires for material goods from around the world in an era of sweeping social and economic change. Exploring complex webs of local consumer demands that affected patterns of exchange and production as far away as India and the United States, the book challenges presumptions that Africa's global relationships have always been dictated by outsiders. Full of rich and often-surprising vignettes that outline forgotten trajectories of global trade and consumption, it powerfully demonstrates how contemporary globalization is foreshadowed in deep histories of intersecting and reciprocal relationships across vast distances.
looks like stuff i have not encountered at all before. if it holds water might have to move some stuff around in my head to accommodate these accounts... anyone read or know about it?
any other anthropological concerns, issues, points of interest, recommendations, BS calls, beef, related or unrelated to above welcome.