{"product_id":"from-water-to-wine-9781487506414","title":"From Water to Wine","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFrom Water to Wine\u003c\/em\u003e explores how Angola has changed since the end of its civil war in 2002. Its focus is on the middle class—defined as those with a house, a car, and an education—and their consumption, aspirations, and hopes for their families. It takes as its starting point \"what is working in Angola?\" rather than \"what is going wrong?\" and makes a deliberate, political choice to give attention to beauty and happiness in everyday life in a country that has had an unusually troubled history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach chapter focuses on one of the five senses, with the introduction and conclusion provoking reflection on proprioception (or kinesthesia) and curiosity. Various media are employed—poetry, recipes, photos, comics, and other textual experiments—to engage readers and their senses. Written for a broad audience, this text is an excellent addition to the study of Africa, the lusophone world, international development, sensory ethnography, and ethnographic \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[I]t is refreshing to get insight into actors, stories, and institutions generally ignored by most scholars, who are more interested in the state, politics, corruption, and exclusion than in seeking out new narratives and framings of Angola. The result is an absorbing account of everyday life as [Auerbach] investigates how people prosper and find meaning under difficult conditions.\" -- Claudia Gastrow, University of Johannesburg * \u003cem\u003eH-Luso-Africa\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Images Acknowledgments  Interview Report  Preface    Proprioception   Introduction: Where Petrol Is Cheaper than Water: Life in Capitalismo selvagem    The Back Story  Representing “Africa”?  On Making Sense in the Writing  What the Book Is Actually About  How the Research Was Done  How to Read This Book  Core Concepts    Interlude: A Brief History of Angola  Illustrated by Elinor Driver   Smell   1. The Smell of Success: Perfume, Beauty, Sweat, Oil   Read with Your Nose  Conditioning the Air: Space and Control  Class, Perfume, Dream: Aspiration and Authenticity    Interlude: Recording Fieldwork   Notes  Objects  Structured Observations of Space    Touch   2. Touch and the Tactile: The Textures of Scouting in Capitalismo selvagem    Seeing through the Skin  Making the Mafia  Stitching Pano Pants  Catching Slipping Children  Lighting the Fire as Service  Building the New Man  Choosing Appropriate T-Shirts  Practicing Peace    Interlude: Poems 1    Fatherhood  Radio Building  Seven Women  Buying Cloth  Fátima’s Mother, on Christmas Day 2013  The Cuban Help  The Driver    Taste    3. Changing Tastes: Palates and the Possible    Recipes  The Man Who Made Cake, Dona Maria, and the Sushi Chef  Oral Histories: The Stories of Two Lives    Interlude: Photo Essay 1: The Flavors of Peace    Interlude: Photo Essay 2: Choices and Consumption    Sound   4. Music, Fofoca, and the News: Sound, Space, and Orientation    Sound Readings: Spectrographs, Annotation, Language  Cold War Echoes: Higher Education, Ideology, and Contested Duties    Interlude: Poems 2    Estrelinha (Little Star)  Birds on Campus  João, Collapsing  Dona Maria Serving Soup  Dona Inês  Two Photographers  Cinema Church  Yoga Teacher    Interlude: Photo Essay 3: Childhoods    Interlude: Photo Essay 4: Leisure    Sight   5. National Rebranding    The Selfie and the Other  National Rebranding: Guarantee Your Children a Better Past  Biopolitical Screens: Frames of Vision  Laughing on the Internet  Insta Lies or Insta Truths?  Fieldwork Ethics: Seven Afterimages    Interlude: Photo Essay 5: Art    Interlude: Photo Essay 6: Architecture    Curiosity   Conclusion: Attending the Beautiful in the Light of What We Know    Capitalismo selvagem in Uncertain Times  The Government Has Gone on Holiday, but Maybe João Lourenço Will Bring It Back  Practicing Peace ... Again    Notes  Indicative Bibliography  References  Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409143832919,"sku":"9781487506414","price":44.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781487506414.jpg?v=1730505600","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/from-water-to-wine-9781487506414","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}