ISBN:
9789004256248
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (viii, 283 pages)
,
illustrations, maps
Series Statement:
Afrika-studiecentrum series v. 30
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als The Objects of Life in Central Africa: The History of Consumption and Social Change, 1840-1980
Keywords:
Material culture
;
Economic anthropology
;
Africa, Central Commerce
;
History
;
Africa, Central History
Abstract:
Preliminary Material /Robert Ross , Marja Hinfelaar and Iva Peša -- Introduction: Material Culture and Consumption Patterns: A Southern African Revolution /Robert Ross , Marja Hinfelaar and Iva Peša -- Wearing Cloth, Wielding Guns: Consumption, Trade, and Politics in the South Central African Interior during the Nineteenth Century /David M. Gordon -- The Role of Firearms in the Songye Region (1869–1960) /Donatien Dibwe Dia Mwembu -- Sipilingas: Intraregional African Initiatives and the United Methodist Church in Katanga and Zambia, 1910–1945 /J. Jeffrey Hoover -- ‘Walking Home Majestically’: Consumption and the Enactment of Social Status among Labour Migrants from Barotseland, 1935–1965 /Michael Barrett -- Railways, Railway Culture, and ‘Industrial Work Discipline’ in the Rhodesias /Kenneth P. Vickery -- Advertising, Consuming Manufactured Goods and Contracting Colonial Hegemony on the Zambian Copperbelt, 1945–1964 /Walima T. Kalusa -- Fabricating Dreams: Sewing Machines, Tailors, and Urban Entrepreneurship in Zambia /Karen Tranberg Hansen -- Indian Traders as Agents of Western Technological Consumption and Social Change in Mukuni: Memories of the Sharma Brothers’ Trading Store, 1950s to 1964 /Friday Mufuzi -- The Social and Economic Impact of the Fort Jameson (Chipata) Indians on the Development of Chipata District, 1899–1973 /Bizeck J. Phiri -- Business, Consumption and Politics: Robinson Nabulyato’s Banamwaze Store, 1949–1969 /Marja Hinfelaar -- Buying Pineapples, Selling Cloth: Traders and Trading Stores in Mwinilunga District, 1940–1970 /Iva Peša -- Index /Robert Ross , Marja Hinfelaar and Iva Peša.
Abstract:
In The Objects of Life in Central Africa the history of consumption and social change from 1840 until 1980 is explored. By taking consumption as a vantage point, the contributions deviate from and add to previous works which have mainly analysed issues of production from an economic and political perspective. The chapters are broad-ranging in temporal and geographical focus, including contributions on Congo, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Angola. Topics range from the social history of firearms to the perception of the railway and include contributions on sewing machines, traders and advertising. By looking at the socio-economic, political and cultural meaning and impact of goods the history of Central Africa is reassessed
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.1163/9789004256248
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