| Titre : |
The objects of life in Central Africa : the history of consumption and social change, 1840-1980 |
| Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
| Auteurs : |
Robert Ross (1949 Juillet 26-...), Editeur scientifique ; Marja Hinfelaar, Editeur scientifique ; Iva Pesa, Editeur scientifique |
| Editeur : |
Leiden [Boston] : Brill |
| Année de publication : |
2013 |
| Collection : |
Afrika studiecentrum series num. 30 |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : |
978-90-04-25490-9 |
| Note générale : |
Notes bibliogr. Index |
| Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
| Catégories : |
Afrique centrale -- Commerce -- Histoire ; Afrique centrale -- Histoire ; Anthropologie économique -- Afrique centrale ; Culture matérielle -- Afrique centrale
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| Index. décimale : |
306.3 |
| Note de contenu : |
List of illustrations - List of contributors - Introduction: Material culture and consumption patterns: a Southern African revolution / Robert Ross, Marja Hinfelaar & Iva Pesa. - Part I. Pre-colonial trade and firearms: Wearing cloth, wielding guns: Consumption, trade, and politics in the South Central African interior during the nineteenth century / David M. Gordon. - The role of firearms in the Songye region (1869-1960) / Donatien Dibwe dia Mwembu. - Part II. Migrancy, mobility and innovation: Sipilingas: intraregional African initiatives and the United Methodist Church in Katanga and Zambia, 1910-1945 / J. Jeffrey Hoover. - 'Walking home majestically': consumption and the enactment of social status among labour migrants from Barotseland, 1935-1965 / Michael Barrett. - Railways, railway culture, and 'industrial work discipline'in the Rhodesias / Kenneth P. Vickery. - Part III. Advertising and entrepreneurship: Advertising consuming manufactured goods and contracting colonial hegemony on the Zambian Copperbelt, 1945-1964 / Walima T. Kalusa. - Fabricating dreams: sewing machines, tailors, and urban entrepreneurship in Zambia / Karen Tranberg Hansen. - Part IV. Traders: Indian traders as agents of Western technological consumption and social change in Mukuni: memories of the Sharma Brothers' Trading Store, 1950s to 1964 / Friday Mufuzi. - The social and economic impact of the Fort Jameson (Chiptat) Indians on the development of Chipata District, 1899-1973 / Bizeck J. Phiri. - Business, consumption and politics: Robinson Nabulyato's Banamwaze Store, 1949-1969 / Marja Hinfelaar. - Buying pineapples, selling cloth: traders and trading stores in Mwinilunga District, 1940-1970 / Iva Pesa. - Index. |
The objects of life in Central Africa : the history of consumption and social change, 1840-1980 [texte imprimé] / Robert Ross (1949 Juillet 26-...), Editeur scientifique ; Marja Hinfelaar, Editeur scientifique ; Iva Pesa, Editeur scientifique . - Leiden (Boston) : Brill, 2013. - ( Afrika studiecentrum series; 30) . ISBN : 978-90-04-25490-9 Notes bibliogr. Index Langues : Anglais ( eng)
| Catégories : |
Afrique centrale -- Commerce -- Histoire ; Afrique centrale -- Histoire ; Anthropologie économique -- Afrique centrale ; Culture matérielle -- Afrique centrale
|
| Index. décimale : |
306.3 |
| Note de contenu : |
List of illustrations - List of contributors - Introduction: Material culture and consumption patterns: a Southern African revolution / Robert Ross, Marja Hinfelaar & Iva Pesa. - Part I. Pre-colonial trade and firearms: Wearing cloth, wielding guns: Consumption, trade, and politics in the South Central African interior during the nineteenth century / David M. Gordon. - The role of firearms in the Songye region (1869-1960) / Donatien Dibwe dia Mwembu. - Part II. Migrancy, mobility and innovation: Sipilingas: intraregional African initiatives and the United Methodist Church in Katanga and Zambia, 1910-1945 / J. Jeffrey Hoover. - 'Walking home majestically': consumption and the enactment of social status among labour migrants from Barotseland, 1935-1965 / Michael Barrett. - Railways, railway culture, and 'industrial work discipline'in the Rhodesias / Kenneth P. Vickery. - Part III. Advertising and entrepreneurship: Advertising consuming manufactured goods and contracting colonial hegemony on the Zambian Copperbelt, 1945-1964 / Walima T. Kalusa. - Fabricating dreams: sewing machines, tailors, and urban entrepreneurship in Zambia / Karen Tranberg Hansen. - Part IV. Traders: Indian traders as agents of Western technological consumption and social change in Mukuni: memories of the Sharma Brothers' Trading Store, 1950s to 1964 / Friday Mufuzi. - The social and economic impact of the Fort Jameson (Chiptat) Indians on the development of Chipata District, 1899-1973 / Bizeck J. Phiri. - Business, consumption and politics: Robinson Nabulyato's Banamwaze Store, 1949-1969 / Marja Hinfelaar. - Buying pineapples, selling cloth: traders and trading stores in Mwinilunga District, 1940-1970 / Iva Pesa. - Index. |
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