wyszukanych pozycji: 6
Dress Cultures in Zambia: Interwoven Histories, Global Exchanges, and Everyday Life
ISBN: 9781009350365 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Drawing on half-a-century of research in Zambia, Karen Tranberg Hansen offers a vibrant, detailed account of changing dress practices from the late-colonial period to the present day. Brought to life with colour illustrations and personal anecdotes, this book examines how dress cultures engage with wider social, economic, and political issues.
Drawing on half-a-century of research in Zambia, Karen Tranberg Hansen offers a vibrant, detailed account of changing dress practices from the late-co...
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423,99 zł |
African Encounters with Domesticity
ISBN: 9780813518039 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Anthropologists usually think of domesticity as the activities related to the home and the family. Such activities have complex meanings associated with the sense of space, work, gender, and power. The contributors to this interdisciplinary collection of papers examine how indigenous African notions of domesticity interact with Western notions to transform the meaning of such activities. They explore the interactions of notions of domesticity in a number of settings in the twentieth century and the kinds of personal troubles and public issues these interactions have provoked. They also...
Anthropologists usually think of domesticity as the activities related to the home and the family. Such activities have complex meanings associated wi...
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290,47 zł |
Distant Companions: Servants and Employers in Zambia, 1900-1985
ISBN: 9781501727917 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Distant Companions tells the fascinating story of the lives and times of domestic servants and their employers in Zambia from the beginning of white settlement during the colonial period until after independence. Emphasizing the interactive nature of relationships of domination, the book is useful for readers who seek to understand the dynamics...
Distant Companions tells the fascinating story of the lives and times of domestic servants and their employers in Zambia from the beginning of white s...
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82,94 zł |
Salaula: The World of Secondhand Clothing and Zambia
ISBN: 9780226315812 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. When we donate our unwanted clothes to charity, we rarely think about what will happen to them: who will sort and sell them, and finally, who will revive and wear them. In this fascinating look at the multibillion dollar secondhand clothing business, Karen Tranberg Hansen takes us around the world from the West, where clothing is donated, through the salvage houses in North America and Europe, where it is sorted and compressed, to Africa, in this case, Zambia. There it enters the dynamic world of "Salaula," a Bemba term that means "to rummage through a pile."
Essential for the African... When we donate our unwanted clothes to charity, we rarely think about what will happen to them: who will sort and sell them, and finally, who will rev...
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163,80 zł |
Street Economies in the Urban Global South
ISBN: 9781938645143 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book focuses on the economic, political, social, and cultural dynamics of street economies across the urban Global South. Although contestations over public space have a long history, Street Economies in the Urban Global South presents the argument that the recent conjuncture of neoliberal economic policies and unprecedented urban growth in the Global South has changed the equation. The detailed ethnographic accounts from post-socialist Vietnam to a struggling democracy in the Philippines, from the former command economies in Africa to previously authoritarian regimes in Latin... This book focuses on the economic, political, social, and cultural dynamics of street economies across the urban Global South. Although contestatio... |
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250,02 zł |
Distant Companions
ISBN: 9780801422171 / Angielski / Twarda / 1989 / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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243,79 zł |