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Author Ferguson, James, 1959-

Title Expectations of modernity : myths and meanings of urban life on the Zambian Copperbelt / James Ferguson
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1999

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 326 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Perspectives on Southern Africa ; 57
Perspectives on Southern Africa ; 57.
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
Summary 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. Focusing on the experiences of mineworkers in the Copperbelt region, James Ferguson traces the failure of standard narratives of urbanization and social change to make sense of the Copperbelt's recent his
Analysis 1960s
1970s
academic
africa
african culture
african history
african studies
analysis
copper
copperbelt
cultural history
cultural studies
economic boom
economics
economy
ethnography
exports
finance
global economy
global
international
labor
modernity
money
precious metals
scholarly
social studies
urban economy
urban
zambia
zambian culture
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-320) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject 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 -- Copperbelt Province
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
Anthropologie
Ethnologie
Industrialisierung
Kupferindustrie
Verstädterung
Urbanisatie.
Industrialisatie.
Mijnwerkers.
Antropologia urbana.
Urbanização.
Anthropologie urbaine -- Zambie.
Cuivre -- Mines et extraction -- Zambie.
SUBJECT Zambia -- Social conditions -- 1964- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85149614
Zambia -- Economic conditions -- 1964- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85149599
Zambia -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85149610
Subject Zambia
Zambia -- Copperbelt Province
Provinz Copperbelt
Sambia
Zambia.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780520922280
052092228X
0585283036
9780585283036
0520217020
9780520217027