Expectations of Modernity - Myths & Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt

James Ferguson

University of California Press

1999

348 páginas

11h 36m

ISBN-13: 9780520217027

Zambia's economic boom in the 1960s and 1970s was fueled by the export of copper and other primary materials. Since the 1970s the urban economy has decreased. This volume explores the social and cultural responses to this prolonged period of sharp economic decline.