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Living for the city :social change and knowledge production in the Central African Copperbelt

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Living for the City is a social history of the Central African Copperbelt, considered as a single region encompassing the neighbouring mining regions of Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Haut Katanga and Zambian Copperbelt mine towns have been understood as the vanguard of urban 'modernity' in Africa. Observers found in these towns new African communities that were experiencing what they wrongly understood as a transition from rural 'traditional' society – stable, superstitious and agricultural – to an urban existence characterised by industrial work discipline, the money economy and conspicuous consumption, Christianity, and nuclear families headed by male breadwinners supported by domesticated housewives. Miles Larmer challenges this representation of Copperbelt society, presenting an original analysis which integrates the region's social history with the production of knowledge about it, shaped by both changing political and intellectual contexts and by Copperbelt communities themselves.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

967 LAR l

Penerbit

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press., 2021

Deskripsi Fisik

xiii, 380 p. : ill

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781108973120

Klasifikasi

967

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

Edisi

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Subjek

Humans
African Continental Ancestry Group
Copper

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