Home spaces, street styles : contesting power and identity in a South African city /

"This book revisits and updates some classic Anthropology - the Xhosa in Town series - based on research in the South African city of East London conducted during the 1950s. The original studies concluded that there were two opposed responses to urbanisation in East London's African locati...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Bank, Leslie John
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: London ; New York : Johannesburg : New York, NY : Pluto Press ; Wits University Press ; Distributed in the United States of America exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Collection:Anthropology, culture, and society.
Sujets:
1900-2099
Xhosa (African people)
Post-apartheid era > South Africa > East London.
Urbanization > South Africa > East London.
Acculturation > South Africa > East London.
Xhosa (Peuple d'Afrique)
Ère post-apartheid > Afrique du Sud > East London.
Urbanisation > Afrique du Sud > East London.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Geography.
Acculturation
Post-apartheid era
Social conditions
Urbanization
East London (South Africa) > Social conditions > 20th century.
East London (South Africa) > Social conditions > 21st century.
South Africa > East London
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Towards and anthropology of urbanism
  • The Xhosa in town revisited
  • Modernism, space and identity
  • Rebellion, fractured urbanism and the fear of fire
  • The style of the comrades
  • Changing migrant cultures
  • Re-modelling the house
  • The rhythms of the yards
  • Post-apartheid suburb or hyper-ghetto.

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