TY  - BOOK
AU  - James Ferguson
AU  - James Ferguson
TI  - Expectations of modernity : : myths and meanings of urban life on the Zambian copperbelt
T2  - Perspectives on Southern Africa, 57
SN  - 9780520217027
U1  - 306.096894 FER 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Berkeley, Calif. ; London 
PB  - : University of California Press
KW  - Social Sciences
KW  - Urban anthropology
KW  - Copper industry and trade
N2  - Once lauded as the wave of the African future, Zambia's economic boom in the 1960s and early 1970s was fueled by the export of copper and other primary materials. Since the mid-1970s the urban economy has rapidly deteriorated. This title explores the social and cultural responses to this prolonged period of sharp economic decline
ER  -