Title Working the system : a political ethnography of the new Angola / Jon Schubert.

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Description	1 online resource
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Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction : working the system in boomtown Africa -- 2002, year zero : the foundations of the new Angola -- Sambizanga : the affects of place and memory -- Angolanidade : mediating urbanity through race and class -- Cunhas : situational kinship and everyday authority -- A culture of immediatism : co-optation and complicity -- Against the system, within the system : the parameters of the political.
Summary	Working the System offers key insights into the politics of the everyday in twenty-first-century dominant party and neo-authoritarian regimes in Africa and elsewhere. Detailing the many ways ordinary Angolans fashion their relationships with the ...
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Subject	Ethnology -- Angola.
	Ethnology.
	Angola.
	Politics and culture -- Angola.
	Politics and culture.
	Angola -- History -- 2002-
	History.
Chronological Term	2002-
Subject	Power (Social sciences) -- Angola.
	Power (Social sciences)
	Postwar reconstruction -- Social aspects -- Angola.
	Postwar reconstruction.
	Social aspects.
Chronological Term	Since 2002
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Schubert, Jon, 1982- Working the system. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017 9781501713699 (DLC) 2017004031
ISBN	9781501712333 (epub/mobi)
	1501712330
	9781501709692 (pdf)
	1501709690
	9781501713699
	9781501713705 (paperback : alkaline paper)