Roads Through Mwinilunga

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-40790-9
Verlag: Koninklijke Brill BV

Buch, Englisch, 430 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 615 g

Reihe: Brill

Roads through Mwinilunga provides a historical appraisal of social change in Northwest Zambia from 1750 until the present. By looking at agricultural production, mobility, consumption, and settlement patterns, existing explanations of social change are reassessed.
Using a wide range of archival and oral history sources, Iva Peša shows the relevance of Mwinilunga to broader processes of colonialism, capitalism, and globalisation. Through a focus on daily life, this book complicates transitions from subsistence to market production and dichotomies between tradition and modernity. Roads through Mwinilunga is a crucial addition to debates on historical and social change in Central Africa.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Peša, Iva

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Mobilität
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Sozialisation, Soziale Interaktion, Sozialer Wandel
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of illustrations

Introduction

1 Paths to the Past: Continuity and Change in Mwinilunga, c. 1750s–1970s

2 Production: Crops, Meat, and Markets

3 Mobility

4 Consumption: Goods, Wealth, and Meaning

5 Settlements and Social Change: Continuity and Change in Village Life

Conclusion

Sources

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Iva Peša, Ph.D. (2014), Leiden University, is a Research Associate in Environmental History at the University of Oxford. She has published extensively on Mwinilunga, including in The Objects of Life in Central Africa (Brill, 2013).