Concepedia

Publication | Closed Access

Lifebuoy Men, Lux Women: Commodification, Consumption, and Cleanliness in Modern Zimbabwe

226

Citations

0

References

1998

Year

Abstract

Cleanliness and civilization - hygiene and colonialism in Southern Africa education, domesticity and bodily discipline buckets, boxes and bonsells - pre-colonial exchange, the kaffir truck trade and needs manufacturing, the African Market and the post-war boom the new mission - advertising and market research in Zimbabwe, 1945-1979 bodies and things - toiletries and commodity culture in post-war Zimbabwe.