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Development Southern Africa Volume 32, 2015 - Issue 1: South Africa's Emergent Middle Class
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‘Growing up’ and ‘moving up’: Metaphors that legitimise upward social mobility in Soweto

Detlev KrigeSenior Lecturer in Anthropology, Department of Anthropology & Archaeology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Pretoria, Private Bag X20, Hatfield0028, South Africa.Correspondence[email protected]
Pages 104-117 | Published online: 06 Dec 2014

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