List 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
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