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Expectations of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt Volume 57 Paperback - 1999
by James Ferguson
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"With Expectations of Modernity James Ferguson has once more made an important contribution to the reconstruction of anthropology. His own vivid ethnography of urban lives in the late twentieth century offers new understandings of culture and cosmopolitanism, while his sense of the wider picture helps us see Africa, in a difficult period, as the continent which contemporary globalization rhetoric conveniently forgets. This is contemporary anthropology of the most relevant, responsible and intellectually sophisticated kind." --Ulf Hannerz, Stockholm University
"A deeply thoughtful book, written with enormous sensitivity. I much admired Ferguson's very original take on African 'modernity.' His engagement with cultural studies is always informed by a deep historical understanding and an appreciation of economic realities. He connects critically but sympathetically with both his informants and with earlier generations of urban anthropologists. The book is often moving--the hardships of life in this 'abject' postmodern setting are too evident, but the amazing creativity of urban 'citemene' culture is wonderfully described. And Ferguson's account of the fraught, conflictual and sometimes violent nature of gender relations is extremely important. Certainly one of the best books on Africa I have read in recent years, this will be required reading for anthropologists and historians." --Megan Vaughan, Oxford University
"A deeply thoughtful book, written with enormous sensitivity. I much admired Ferguson's very original take on African 'modernity.' His engagement with cultural studies is always informed by a deep historical understanding and an appreciation of economic realities. He connects critically but sympathetically with both his informants and with earlier generations of urban anthropologists. The book is often moving--the hardships of life in this 'abject' postmodern setting are too evident, but the amazing creativity of urban 'citemene' culture is wonderfully described. And Ferguson's account of the fraught, conflictual and sometimes violent nature of gender relations is extremely important. Certainly one of the best books on Africa I have read in recent years, this will be required reading for anthropologists and historians." --Megan Vaughan, Oxford University
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- Title Expectations of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt Volume 57
- Author James Ferguson
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- Edition [ Edition: first
- Pages 343
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press, Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 1999-10-01
- Features Bibliography, Index, Maps
- ISBN 9780520217027 / 0520217020
- Weight 1.18 lbs (0.54 kg)
- Dimensions 8.93 x 6 x 1 in (22.68 x 15.24 x 2.54 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1960's
- Chronological Period: 1970's
- Cultural Region: African
- Cultural Region: Central Africa
- Demographic Orientation: Urban
- Ethnic Orientation: African
- Library of Congress subjects Zambia - Economic conditions - 1964-, Urban anthropology - Zambia - Copperbelt
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98-47355
- Dewey Decimal Code 306.096
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- Library Journal, 04/01/2000, Page 0
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