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Expectations of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt (Perspectives on Southern Africa)
Expectations of Modernity Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt - Perspectives on Southern Africa
Author: James Ferguson
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...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780520217010
ISBN-10: 0520217012
Publication Date: 10/1/1999
Pages: 326
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Publisher: University of California Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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