Ferguson, James,  1959- <br/><br/>
Expectations of modernity :  myths and meanings of urban life on the Zambian Copperbelt / 
James Ferguson. 
 - Berkeley :  University of California Press,  �1999. 
 - 1 online resource (xvii, 326 pages) :  illustrations, maps 
 - Perspectives on Southern Africa ;  57 .
 - Perspectives on Southern Africa ;  57. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-320) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780520922280 052092228X 0585283036 9780585283036 0520217020 9780520217027 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>9780520217027 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label>22573/cttsz2xd  JSTOR 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>98047355  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Chronological Terms: </label><br/>Since 1964 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Urban anthropology--Zambia--Copperbelt Province.<br/>Urbanization--Zambia--Copperbelt Province.<br/>Industrialization--Zambia--Copperbelt Province.<br/>Copper industry and trade--Zambia--Copperbelt Province.<br/>Copper mines and mining--Zambia--Copperbelt Province.<br/>Anthropologie urbaine--Zambie--Copperbelt.<br/>Urbanisation--Zambie--Copperbelt.<br/>Industrialisation--Zambie--Copperbelt.<br/>Cuivre--Industrie--Zambie--Copperbelt.<br/>Cuivre--Mines et extraction--Zambie--Copperbelt.<br/>SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.<br/>POLITICAL SCIENCE--Public Policy--Cultural Policy.<br/>SOCIAL SCIENCE--Popular Culture.<br/>Copper industry and trade.<br/>Copper mines and mining.<br/>Economic history.<br/>Industrialization.<br/>Politics and government.<br/>Social conditions.<br/>Urban anthropology.<br/>Urbanization.<br/>Anthropologie<br/>Ethnologie<br/>Industrialisierung<br/>Kupferindustrie<br/>Verst�adterung<br/>Urbanisatie.<br/>Industrialisatie.<br/>Mijnwerkers.<br/>Antropologia urbana.<br/>Urbaniza�c�ao.<br/>Anthropologie urbaine--Zambie.<br/>Cuivre--Mines et extraction--Zambie.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Zambia--Social conditions--1964-<br/>Zambia--Economic conditions--1964-<br/>Zambia--Politics and government.<br/>Zambie--Conditions sociales--1964-<br/>Zambie--Conditions �economiques--1964-<br/>Zambie--Politique et gouvernement.<br/>Zambia.<br/>Zambia--Copperbelt Province.<br/>Provinz Copperbelt<br/>Sambia<br/>Zambia.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic book.<br/>Electronic books.<br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GN657.R4  / F47 1999eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306/.096894