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In Johannesburg’s Jeppe precinct, what looks like disorder is in fact a dense, transnational system of trade, labor, and survival at the heart of the global economy. A market in Jeppestown, Johannesburg. Image © Richard van der Spuy via Shutterstock. Tanya Zack’s recent gem—The Chaos Precinct: Johannesburg as Port City—is focused on the Jeppe precinct, the so-called “Ethiopian Quarter,” located in the heart of Johannesburg’s central business district. The book lends an ethnographic take on the c