Expectations of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt Volume 57 - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:James FergusonSeries:Perspectives on Southern Africa #57Publish date:1999-10-01Pages:343
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520217027ISBN-10:520217020UPC:9780520217027Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Sociology, AnthropologyBook Topic:Urban, Cultural & SocialSize:8.93 x 6.00 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.1817Product ID:SCNV9WVFR2
Expectations of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt Volume 57
Once lauded as the wave of the African future, Zambia's economic boom in the 1960s and early 1970s was fueled by the export of copper and other primary materials. Since the mid-1970s, however, the urban economy has rapidly deteriorated, leaving workers scrambling to get by. Expectations of Modernity explores the social and cultural responses to this prolonged period of sharp economic decline....
Series: Perspectives on Southern Africa #57
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520217027ISBN-10:520217020UPC:9780520217027Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Sociology, AnthropologyBook Topic:Urban, Cultural & SocialSize:8.93 x 6.00 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.1817Product ID:SCNV9WVFR2
James Ferguson is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine, and the author of The Anti-Politics Machine: "Development," Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho (1990). He is also coeditor, with Akhil Gupta, of Anthropological Locations: Boundaries and Grounds of a Field Science (California, 1997) and Culture, Power, Place: Explorations in Critical...
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