Home spaces, street styles [electronic resource] : 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):

Acculturation--South Africa--East London.

Acculturation.

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

Post-apartheid era.

Urbanization--South Africa--East London.

Urbanization.

Xhosa (African people).

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

East London (South Africa).

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

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.

Language Note:

English

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 1950's. 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 1950's to assess how social and political changes have transformed these areas, in particular the apartheid reconstruction of the 1960's and 1970's and the struggle for liberation followed by the post-Apartheid period in the 1980's and 1990's. Bank has added important theoretical insights to this rich ethnography, and forged strong links with issues that transcend the particularities of his urban study.

Contents:

Bank.pdf

Cover

Contents

Illustrations

Series Preface

Preface and Acknowledgements

1. Towards an Anthropology of Urbanism

2. The Xhosa in Town Revisited

3. Modernism, Space and Identity

4. Rebellion, Fractured Urbanism and the Fear of Fire

5. The Style of the Comrades

6. Changing Migrant Cultures

7. Re-modelling the House: Gender and the Politics of Domestic Desire

8. The Rhythms of the Yards

9. Post-Apartheid Suburb or Hyper-Ghetto

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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

ISBN:

1-84964-595-7

OCLC:

730517855