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· 2019

Expectations of Modernity

James Ferguson

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This ethnographic study explores how Zambian mineworkers in the Copperbelt region navigate social and cultural responses to a prolonged period of economic decline since the mid-1970s, challenging standard narratives of urbanization.

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Field: Anthropology

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