Gains and losses in the margins of time: From West and Equatorial history to present-day South Africa, and back

Gains and losses in the margins of time: From West and Equatorial history to present-day South Africa, and back

Author: 
Guyer, Jane I.
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Cambridge University Press
Date published: 
2014
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Africa: Journal of the International African Institute
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Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, Vol. 84, No. 1, 2014, pp. 146-150
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...In Atlantic Africa and elsewhere on the continent, an old, established popular sector is being brought into sharp confrontation with expanding capital-intensive presences. In South Africa, an old and powerfully established formal, capitalintensive sector deals with a newly emergent and experimental popular sector. This may be a different version of the same ‘interface’ that we put into the framework for our first collection on ‘money matters’ (Guyer 1995a) in West and Equatorial Africa, and that I took as the general historical backdrop to the analyses in Marginal Gains. Can our analytics work across these variously constructed and rapidly changing interfaces?....

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CITATION: Guyer, Jane I.. Gains and losses in the margins of time: From West and Equatorial history to present-day South Africa, and back . : Cambridge University Press , 2014. Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, Vol. 84, No. 1, 2014, pp. 146-150 - Available at: https://library.au.int/gains-and-losses-margins-time-west-and-equatorial-history-present-day-south-africa-and-back-3