TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ferguson,James
TI  - Expectations of modernity: myths and meanings of urban life on the Zambian Copperbelt 
T2  - Perspectives on Southern Africa
SN  - 9780520922280
AV  - GN657.R4 F47 1999eb
U1  - 306/.096894 21
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Urban anthropology
KW  - Zambia
KW  - Copperbelt Province
KW  - Urbanization
KW  - Industrialization
KW  - Copper industry and trade
KW  - Copper mines and mining
KW  - Anthropologie urbaine
KW  - Zambie
KW  - Copperbelt
KW  - Urbanisation
KW  - Industrialisation
KW  - Cuivre
KW  - Industrie
KW  - Mines et extraction
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Cultural
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - Cultural Policy
KW  - Popular Culture
KW  - fast
KW  - Economic history
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Anthropologie
KW  - gnd
KW  - Ethnologie
KW  - Industrialisierung
KW  - Kupferindustrie
KW  - Verst�adterung
KW  - Urbanisatie
KW  - gtt
KW  - Industrialisatie
KW  - Mijnwerkers
KW  - Antropologia urbana
KW  - larpcal
KW  - Urbaniza�c�ao
KW  - ram
KW  - 1964-
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Conditions sociales
KW  - Conditions �economiques
KW  - Politique et gouvernement
KW  - Provinz Copperbelt
KW  - Sambia
KW  - Electronic book
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-320) and index; 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
N2  - 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
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