Expectations of Modernity
Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt
With Expectations of Modernity James Ferguson has once more made an important contribution to the reconstruction of anthropology. His own vivid ethnography of urban lives in the late twentieth century offers new understandings of culture and cosmopolitanism, while his sense of the wider picture helps us see Africa, in a difficult period, as the continent which contemporary globalization rhetoric conveniently forgets. This is contemporary anthropology of the most relevant, responsible and intellectually sophisticated kind. -Ulf Hannerz, Stockholm University A deeply thoughtful book, written with enormous sensitivity. I much admired Ferguson's…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-520-21702-7
- EAN: 9780520217027
- Produktnummer: 1337724
- Verlag: University Presses
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
- Seitenangabe: 343 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D2.5 cm 544 g
- Abbildungen: Trade Paperback; 7 figures, 7 tables, 3 maps.
- Reihenbandnummer: 57
- Gewicht: 544
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James Ferguson is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine, and the author of The Anti-Politics Machine: Development, Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho (1990). He is also coeditor, with Akhil Gupta, of Anthropological Locations: Boundaries and Grounds of a Field Science (California, 1997) and Culture, Power, Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology (1997).
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