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Expectations of modernity : myths and meanings of urban life on the Zambian Copperbelt /

Main Author: Ferguson, James, 1959-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1999.
Series:Perspectives on Southern Africa ; 57
Subjects:
Urban anthropology > Zambia > Copperbelt Province.
Urbanization > Zambia > Copperbelt Province.
Industrialization > Zambia > Copperbelt Province.
Copper industry and trade > Zambia > Copperbelt Province.
Copper mines and mining > Zambia
Urbanization > Zambia.
Urban anthropology > Zambia.
Copper miners > Social conditions > Zambia.
Copper mines and mining > Economic aspects > Zambia.
Anthropologie urbaine > Zambie > Copperbelt.
Urbanisation > Zambie > Copperbelt.
Industrialisation > Zambie > Copperbelt.
Cuivre > Industrie > Zambie > Copperbelt.
Cuivre > Mines et extraction > Zambie
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Copper industry and trade.
Copper mines and mining.
Economic history.
Industrialization.
Politics and government.
Social conditions.
Urban anthropology.
Urbanization.
Urbanisatie.
Industrialisatie.
Zambia > Social conditions > 1964- > Copperbelt Province.
Zambia > Economic conditions > 1964-
Zambia > Politics and government.
Zambia > Politics and government > 1964-
Zambie > Conditions sociales > 1964- > Copperbelt.
Zambie > Conditions économiques > 1964-
Zambie > Politique et gouvernement.
Zambia.
Zambia > Copperbelt Province.
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Table of Contents:
  • The Copperbelt in Theory: From "Emerging Africa" to the Ethnography of Decline
  • Expectations of Permanence: Mobile Workers, Modernist Narratives, and the "Full House" of Urban-Rural Residential Strategies
  • Rural Connections, Urban Styles: Theorizing Cultural Dualism
  • "Back to the Land"?: The Micropolitical Economy of "Return" Migration
  • Expectations of Domesticity: Men, Women, and "the Modern Family"
  • Asia in Miniature: Signfication, Noise, and Cosmopolitan Style
  • Global Disconnect: Abjection and the Aftermath of Modernism
  • Postscript: December 1998
  • Appendix: MIneworkers' Letters.

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