Name: The Modernity Bluff: Crime, Consumption, and Citizenship in Côte D’Ivoire (en Inglés)
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Author: Sasha Newell
ISBN: 9780226575209

portada The Modernity Bluff: Crime, Consumption, and Citizenship in Côte D’Ivoire (en Inglés)

The Modernity Bluff: Crime, Consumption, and Citizenship in Côte D’Ivoire (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

University Of Chicago Press

Autor

Sasha Newell

Año

2012

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

318

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN

0226575209

ISBN13

9780226575209

Categorías

Antropología social y cultural, etnografía

The Modernity Bluff: Crime, Consumption, and Citizenship in Côte D’Ivoire (en Inglés)

Sasha Newell (Autor) · University Of Chicago Press · Tapa Blanda

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In Côte d’Ivoire, appearing modern is so important for success that many young men deplete their already meager resources to project an illusion of wealth in a fantastic display of Western imitation, spending far more than they can afford on brand name clothing, accessories, technology, and a robust nightlife. Such imitation, however, is not primarily meant to deceive—rather, as Sasha Newell argues in The Modernity Bluff, it is an explicit performance so valued in Côte d’Ivoire it has become a matter of national pride. Called bluffeurs, these young urban men operate in a system of cultural economy where reputation is essential for financial success. That reputation is measured by familiarity with and access to the fashionable and expensive, which leads to a paradoxical state of affairs in which the wasting of wealth is essential to its accumulation. Using the consumption of Western goods to express their cultural mastery over Western taste, Newell argues, bluffeurs engage a global hierarchy that is profoundly modern, one that values performance over authenticity—highlighting the counterfeit nature of modernity itself.