Expectations of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt.
- 5th.
- University of California 1999
- xvii; 326p.
The Copper belt in Theory: From "Emerging Africa" to the Ethnography of Decline p.1, Expectations of Permanence: Mobile Workers, Modernist Narratives, and the "Full House" of Urban Rural Residential Strategies p.38, Rural Connections, Urban Styles: Theorizing Cultural Dualism p.82, "Back to the Land"? The Micropolitical Economy of "Return" Migration p.123, Expectations of Domesticity Men, Women, and "the Modern Family" p.166, Asia in Miniature: Signification, Noise, and Cosmopolitan Style p.207, Global Disconnect: Abjection and the Aftermath of Modernism p.234, Postscript: December I998 p.255