ISBN:
9780520922280
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052092228X
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0585283036
,
9780585283036
,
9780520217027
,
0520217020
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xvii, 326 pages)
,
illustrations, maps.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Perspectives on Southern Africa 57
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Ferguson, James, 1959- Expectations of modernity
DDC:
306/.096894
Keywords:
Urban anthropology Zambia
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Copperbelt Province
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Urbanization Zambia
;
Copperbelt Province
;
Industrialization Zambia
;
Copperbelt Province
;
Copper industry and trade Zambia
;
Copperbelt Province
;
Copper mines and mining Zambia
;
Copperbelt Province
;
Anthropologie urbaine Zambie
;
Copperbelt
;
Urbanisation Zambie
;
Copperbelt
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Industrialisation Zambie
;
Copperbelt
;
Cuivre Industrie
;
Zambie
;
Copperbelt
;
Cuivre Mines et extraction
;
Zambie
;
Copperbelt
;
Urbanization
;
Industrialization
;
Copper industry and trade
;
Copper mines and mining
;
Urban anthropology
;
Urbanization Zambia
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Urban anthropology Zambia
;
Copper miners Social conditions
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Zambia
;
Copper mines and mining Economic aspects
;
Zambia
;
Copper mines and mining
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Economic history
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Industrialization
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Politics and government
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Social conditions
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Urban anthropology
;
Urbanization
;
Anthropologie
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Ethnologie
;
Industrialisierung
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Kupferindustrie
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Verstädterung
;
Urbanisatie
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Industrialisatie
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Mijnwerkers
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Antropologia urbana
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Urbanização
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Anthropologie urbaine ; Zambie
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Cuivre ; Mines et extraction ; Zambie
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
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Copper industry and trade
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Zambia Social conditions
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1964-
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Zambia Economic conditions
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1964-
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Zambia Politics and government
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Zambie Conditions sociales
;
1964-
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Zambie Conditions économiques
;
1964-
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Zambie Politique et gouvernement
;
Zambia
;
Zambia
;
Copperbelt Province
;
Zambia Politics and government
;
Zambia Social conditions 1964-
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Zambia Economic conditions 1964-
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Zambia Politics and government
;
1964-
;
Sambia
;
Zambia
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Zambia ; Copperbelt Province
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Zambia
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Provinz Copperbelt
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Electronic book
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-320) and index. - Description based on print version record
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