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In the Skin of the City: Spatial Transformation in Luanda (Theory in Forms) by António Tomás is a social science available to read on EtoBox.
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With <i>In the Skin of the City</i>, António Tomás traces the history and transformation of Luanda, Angola, the nation’s capital as well as one of the oldest settlements founded by the European colonial powers in the Southern Hemisphere. Drawing on ethnographic and archival research alongside his own experiences growing up in Luanda, Tomás shows how the city’s physical and social boundaries—its skin—constitute porous and shifting interfaces between center and margins, settler and Native, enslave
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- Author
- António Tomás
- Publisher
- Duke University Press Books
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781478018155
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Sociology, History, Social Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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