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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bank, Leslie John.

Series:

Anthropology, culture, and society

Anthropology, culture and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Xhosa (African people).

Post-apartheid era--South Africa--East London.

Post-apartheid era.

Urbanization--South Africa--East London.

Urbanization.

Acculturation--South Africa--East London.

Acculturation.

East London (South Africa)--Social conditions--20th century.

East London (South Africa).

East London (South Africa)--Social conditions--21st century.

South Africa--East London.

Physical Description:

x, 276 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Pluto Press ; Johannesburg : Wits University Press ; New York, NY : Distributed in the United States of America exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Summary:

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 locations, one embracing Westernisation, European values and Christianity and another opposed to it. The studies have been the subject of intense anthropological debate. Leslie Bank returned to the areas of East London studied in the 1950s to assess how social and political changes have transformed these areas, in particular the apartheid reconstruction of the 1960s and 1970s and the struggle for liberation followed by the post-Apartheid period in the 1980s and 1990s. Bank has added important theoretical insights to this rich ethnography, and forged strong links with issues that transcend the particularities of his urban study.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-263) and index.

ISBN:

9780745323282

0745323286

9780745323275

0745323278

9781868145317

186814531X

OCLC:

711946296