Money and Violence: Financial Self-Help Groups in a South African Township

ISBN-13: 9789004157262 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 194 str.

Erik Bähre

Opis

This ethnography reveals how, faced with violence, economic insecurity, and volatile relations, Xhosa migrants in Cape Town, South Africa, establish burial societies and credit groups. It examines the urban poor's day-to-day struggles over money in post-apartheid South Africa.