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Expectations of modernity : myths and meanings of urban life on the Zambian Copperbelt / James Ferguson.
Van Pelt Library GN657.R4 F47 1999
By Request
Penn Museum Library GN657.R4 F47 1999
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ferguson, James, 1959-2025
- Series:
- Perspectives on Southern Africa ; 57.
- Perspectives on Southern Africa ; 57
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Urban anthropology--Zambia--Copperbelt Province.
- Urban anthropology.
- Urbanization--Zambia--Copperbelt Province.
- Urbanization.
- Industrialization--Zambia--Copperbelt Province.
- Industrialization.
- Copper industry and trade--Zambia--Copperbelt Province.
- Copper industry and trade.
- Copper mines and mining--Zambia--Copperbelt Province.
- Copper mines and mining.
- Zambia--Social conditions--1964-.
- Zambia.
- Social conditions.
- Zambia--Economic conditions--1964-.
- Economic conditions.
- Zambia--Politics and government.
- Politics and government.
- Zambia--Copperbelt Province.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 326 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, [1999]
- Summary:
- An ethnography of the Zambian copperbelt, focusing on its economic decline and the people's understanding of it. This is put in the context of earlier anthropological writings on the region that assumed an opposition between urban/modern and rural/traditional. Ferguson shows how economic collapse reveals this as a false dichotomy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-320) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0520217012
- 0520217020
- OCLC:
- 40119700
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