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BL
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847273
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| Title & Author
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Johannesburg : : the elusive metropolis /\ Sarah Nuttall and Achille Mbembé, eds. ; with an afterword by Arjun Appadurai and Carol A. Breckenridge.
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| Publication Statement
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Durham :: Duke University Press,, 2008.
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| Series Statement
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A public culture book
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1 online resource (viii, 398 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0822381214
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: 1282903934
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: 6612903937
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: 9780822381211
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: 9781282903937
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: 9786612903939
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0822342626
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0822342847
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9780822342625
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9780822342847
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Aesthetics of superfluity / Achille Mbembé -- People as infrastructure / AbdouMaliq Simone -- Stylizing the self / Sarah Nuttall -- Gandhi, Mandela, and the African modern / Jonathan Hyslop -- Art Johannesburg and its objects / David Bunn -- The suffering body of the city / Frødøric Le Marcis -- Literary city / Sarah Nuttall.
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| Abstract
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Collection of scholarly and creative essays on Johannesburg that focus on the city's modern and cosmopolitan status within Africa and the world.
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Sociology, Urban-- South Africa-- Johannesburg.
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Civilization.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Cultural Policy.
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Social conditions.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Anthropology-- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Popular Culture.
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Sociology, Urban.
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Johannesburg (South Africa), Civilization.
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Johannesburg (South Africa), Social conditions.
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Johannesburg
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South Africa, Johannesburg.
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| Dewey Classification
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306.096822/1
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| LC Classification
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HN801.J64J64 2008
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| NLM classification
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HD 345.090sdnb
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MS 1870rvk
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NR 9040rvk
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Mbembe, Achille,1957-
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Nuttall, Sarah.
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