Distant companions : servants and employers in Zambia, 1900-1985 /

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Distant Companions tells the fascinating story of the lives and times of domestic servants and their employers in Zambia from the beginning of white settlement during the colonial period until after independence. Emphasizing the interactive nature of relationships of domination, the book is useful f...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hansen, Karen Tranberg
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1989.
Colección:Anthropology of contemporary issues.
Temas:
1900-1999
Geschichte 1900-1985.
Household employees > Zambia > History > 20th century.
Sexual division of labor > Zambia > History > 20th century.
Master and servant > Zambia > History > 20th century.
Employés de maison > Zambie > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Employeur et employé (Droit) > Zambie > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Division sexuelle du travail > Zambie > Histoire > 20e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Colonial influence
Household employees
Master and servant
Sexual division of labor
Social conditions
Diener
Dienstbote
Employés.
Werkgevers.
Huishoudelijke arbeid.
Employeur et employé > Zambie > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Employées de maison > Zambie > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Rôle selon le sexe > Zambie.
Zambia > Social conditions.
Zambia > Colonial influence.
Zambie > Conditions sociales.
Zambie > Influence coloniale.
Zambia
Sambia
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the problem and its context
  • Part I.A fixture of colonial society
  • The creation of a gender role: the male domestic servant
  • Women for hire? Sex and gender in domestic service
  • Troubled lives: servants and their employers in the preindependence era
  • Part II. Encountering domestic service
  • Part III. Colonial legacies and postcolonial changes
  • Persistence and change
  • A transformed occupation
  • Lives beyond the workplace
  • Servants everywhere: conclusions
  • Appendix 1. Servants' wages
  • Appendix 2. Servants' budgets.

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