Expectations of modernity : myths and meanings of urban life on the Zambian Copperbelt /

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Once lauded as the wave of the African future, Zambia's economic boom in the 1960s and early 1970s was fueled by the export of copper and other primary materials. Since the mid-1970s, however, the urban economy has rapidly deteriorated, leaving workers scrambling to get by. Expectations of Mode...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ferguson, James, 1959-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1999.
Series:Perspectives on Southern Africa ; 57.
Subjects:
Since 1964
Urban anthropology > Zambia > Copperbelt Province.
Urbanization > Zambia > Copperbelt Province.
Industrialization > Zambia > Copperbelt Province.
Copper industry and trade > Zambia > Copperbelt Province.
Copper mines and mining > Zambia > Copperbelt Province.
Anthropologie urbaine > Zambie > Copperbelt.
Urbanisation > Zambie > Copperbelt.
Industrialisation > Zambie > Copperbelt.
Cuivre > Industrie > Zambie > Copperbelt.
Cuivre > Mines et extraction > Zambie > Copperbelt.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Copper industry and trade
Copper mines and mining
Economic history
Industrialization
Politics and government
Social conditions
Urban anthropology
Urbanization
Anthropologie
Ethnologie
Industrialisierung
Kupferindustrie
Verstädterung
Urbanisatie.
Industrialisatie.
Mijnwerkers.
Antropologia urbana.
Urbanização.
Anthropologie urbaine > Zambie.
Cuivre > Mines et extraction > Zambie.
Zambia > Social conditions > 1964-
Zambia > Economic conditions > 1964-
Zambia > Politics and government.
Zambie > Conditions sociales > 1964-
Zambie > Conditions économiques > 1964-
Zambie > Politique et gouvernement.
Zambia
Zambia > Copperbelt Province
Provinz Copperbelt
Sambia
Zambia.
1960s.
1970s.
academic.
africa.
african culture.
african history.
african studies.
analysis.
copper.
copperbelt.
cultural history.
cultural studies.
economic boom.
economics.
economy.
ethnography.
exports.
finance.
global economy.
global.
international.
labor.
modernity.
money.
precious metals.
scholarly.
social studies.
urban economy.
urban.
zambia.
zambian culture.
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Table of Contents:
  • The Copperbelt in Theory: From "Emerging Africa" to the Ethnography of Decline
  • Expectations of Permanence: Mobile Workers, Modernist Narratives, and the "Full House" of Urban-Rural Residential Strategies
  • Rural Connections, Urban Styles: Theorizing Cultural Dualism
  • "Back to the Land"?: The Micropolitical Economy of "Return" Migration
  • Expectations of Domesticity: Men, Women, and "the Modern Family"
  • Asia in Miniature: Signfication, Noise, and Cosmopolitan Style
  • Global Disconnect: Abjection and the Aftermath of Modernism
  • Postscript: December 1998
  • Appendix: MIneworkers' Letters.

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