ISBN:
9789004256248
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (295 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Afrika-Studiecentrum Ser v.30
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. The objects of life in Central Africa
DDC:
306.3
Keywords:
Material culture
;
Economic anthropology
;
Material culture -- Africa, Central
;
Economic anthropology -- Africa, Central
;
Africa, Central -- Commerce -- History
;
Africa, Central -- History
;
Africa, Central ; Commerce ; History
;
Africa, Central ; History
;
Economic anthropology ; Africa, Central
;
Material culture ; Africa, Central
;
Electronic books
;
Africa, Central Commerce
;
History
;
Africa, Central History
;
Zentralafrika
;
Ökonomische Anthropologie
;
Sachkultur
;
Sozialer Wandel
;
Geschichte 1840-1980
Abstract:
In The Objects of Life in Central Africa the history of consumption and social change from 1840 until 1980 is explored. By looking at the socio-economic, political and cultural meaning and impact of goods the contributions reassess Central African history.
Abstract:
Intro -- The Objects of Life in Central Africa -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Material Culture and Consumption Patterns: A Southern African Revolution -- Part I: Pre-Colonial Trade and Firearms -- Wearing Cloth, Wielding Guns: Consumption, Trade, and Politics in the South Central African Interior during the Nineteenth Century -- The Role of Firearms in the Songye Region (1869-1960) -- Part II: Migrancy, Mobility and Innovation -- Sipilingas: Intraregional African Initiatives and the United Methodist Church in Katanga and Zambia, 1910-1945 -- 'Walking Home Majestically': Consumption and the Enactment of Social Status Among Labour Migrants from Barotseland, 1935-1965 -- Railways, Railway Culture, and 'Industrial Work Discipline' in the Rhodesias -- Part III: Advertising and Entrepreneurship -- Advertising, Consuming Manufactured Goods and Contracting Colonial Hegemony on the Zambian Copperbelt, 1945-1964 -- Fabricating Dreams: Sewing Machines, Tailors, and Urban Entrepreneurship in Zambia -- Part IV: Traders -- Indian Traders as Agents of Western Technological Consumption and Social Change in Mukuni: Memories of the Sharma Brothers' Trading Store, 1950s to 1964 -- The Social and Economic Impact of the Fort Jameson (Chipata) Indians on the Development of Chipata District, 1899-1973 -- Business, Consumption and Politics: Robinson Nabulyato's Banamwaze Store, 1949-1969 -- Buying Pineapples, Selling CLOTH: Traders and Trading Stores in Mwinilunga District, 1940-1970 -- Index.
Description / Table of Contents:
The Objects of Life in Central Africa; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Contributors; Introduction: Material Culture and Consumption Patterns: A Southern African Revolution; Part I: Pre-Colonial Trade and Firearms; Wearing Cloth, Wielding Guns: Consumption, Trade, and Politics in the South Central African Interior during the Nineteenth Century; Part II: Migrancy, Mobility and Innovation; Part III: Advertising and Entrepreneurship; Fabricating Dreams: Sewing Machines, Tailors, and Urban Entrepreneurship in Zambia; Part IV: Traders; Index
Note:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
Permalink
