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Expectations of Modernity : Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt James Ferguson
- Author: James Ferguson
- Published Date: 24 Nov 1999
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Language: English
- Format: Paperback::343 pages
- ISBN10: 0520217020
- ISBN13: 9780520217027
- Publication City/Country: Berkerley, United States
- Dimension: 152x 229x 25mm::544g Download: Expectations of Modernity : Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt
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Download torrent pdf Expectations of Modernity : Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt. About the Book 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 history. He instead develops alternative analytic tools appropriate for an "ethnography of decline. Expectations of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt. Front Cover James Ferguson. University of California Press, 1999 Expectations of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt. Book Description: Once lauded as the wave of the African future, Zambia's economic boom in the 1960s and early 1970s was fueled the export of copper and other primary materials.
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