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Distant companions : servants and employers in Zambia, 1900-1985 / Karen Tranberg Hansen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hansen, Karen Tranberg, author.
- Series:
- Anthropology of contemporary issues.
- Cornell paperbacks
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Household employees--Zambia--History--20th century.
- Household employees.
- Sexual division of labor--Zambia--History--20th century.
- Sexual division of labor.
- Master and servant--Zambia--History--20th century.
- Master and servant.
- Zambia--Social conditions.
- Zambia.
- Zambia--Colonial influence.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (340 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca, New York ; London, [England] : Cornell University Press, 1989.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Biography/History:
- Karen Tranberg Hansen is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Northwestern University. She is the author of Keeping House in Lusaka and Salaula: The World of Secondhand Clothing and Zambia and the editor of African Encounters with Domesticity.
- Summary:
- Distant Companions tells the fascinating story of the lives and times of domestic servants and their employers in Zambia from the beginning of white settlement during the colonial period until after independence. Emphasizing the interactive nature of relationships of domination, the book is useful for readers who seek to understand the dynamics of domestic service in a variety of settings. In order to examine the servant- employer relationship within the context of larger political and economic processes, Karen Tranberg Hansen employs an unusual combination of methods, including analysis of historical documents, travelogues, memoirs, literature, and life histories, as well as anthropological fieldwork, survey research, and participant observation.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations, Maps, and Tables
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction. The Problem and Its Context
- Part I. Fixture of Colonial Society
- 1. The Creation of a Gender Role: The Male Domestic Servant
- 2. Women For Hire? Sex And Gender In Domestic Service
- 3. Troubled Lives: Servants and Their Employers in the Preindependence Era
- Part II. Encountering Domestic Service
- 4. Research On And Life With Servants
- PART III. Colonial Legacies and Postcolonial Changes
- 5. Persistence and Change
- 6. A Transformed Occupation
- 7. Lives Beyond the Workplace
- 8. Servants Everywhere: Conclusions
- Appendix 1. Servants' Wages
- Appendix 2. Servants' Budgets
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access. Unless otherwise specified in the content, the work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print record.
- ISBN:
- 9781501727917
- 1501727915
- 9780801495465
- 0801495466
- 9781501719950
- 1501719955
- OCLC:
- 1031871243
- Access Restriction:
- Open access Unrestricted online access
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