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Author:   Robert Ross ,  Marja Hinfelaar ,  Iva Pesa
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   30
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.458kg
ISBN:  

9789004254909

ISBN 10:   9004254900
Pages:   284
Publication Date:   08 August 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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CONTENTS List of Illustrations List of Contributors Introduction: Material Culture and Consumption Patterns: A Southern African Revolution Robert Ross, Marja Hinfelaar and 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 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 (Chipata) 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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Robert Ross, Ph.D. (1974), Cambridge University, is Professor of African History at Leiden University. He has published extensively on South African history, recently focusing on material culture. He is co-editor of Cambridge History of South Africa(Cambridge University Press, 2010). Marja Hinfelaar, Ph.D. (2001) in History, Utrecht University, is a historian working at the National Archives of Zambia, where she coordinates digitisation projects. Her research interests include the historical relationship between church and state in Zambia. Iva Pesa is a historian and is currently doing her PhD at Leiden University on the social history of Mwinilunga District in northwestern Zambia. Her interests include the changing patterns of (agricultural) production, consumption, labour migration and social relationships.

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