Money and violence : financial self-help groups in a South African township / by Erik Bähre.

An ethnographic study that reveals how financial self-help groups (burial societies and credit groups) are islands of hope for Xhosa migrants living in the townships and squatter camps of Cape Town, South Africa. This work examines the urban poor's day-to-day struggles over money in post-aparth...

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Main Author: Bähre, Erik
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.
Series:Afrika-Studiecentrum series ; v. 8.
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