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(u)Mzantsi Classics: Dialogues in Decolonisation from Southern Africa
African port cities and the classics : Chapter 8
12 October 2022
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Abstract
In considering classical references as a hybrid global product, we can describe a classical reference as a commodity, with forms and context inmovement, and one which is being consumed around the world. Accordingto the current debates on global history, the transmission of material culture across regions of the world leads us to narratives of interaction, trade and economic development, hybridity in taste and fashion; a cosmopolitanism that is exemplified in the diversity of objects circulating through Africanport cities.