Home spaces, street styles : contesting power and identity in a South African city

Home spaces, street styles : contesting power and identity in a South African city / Leslie J. Bank.

"This book revisits and updates some classic Anthropology - the Xhosa in Town series - based on research in the South African city of East London conducted during the 1950s. The original studies concluded that there were two opposed responses to urbanisation in East London's African locati...

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Main Author: Bank, Leslie John
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Johannesburg : New York, NY : Pluto Press ; Wits University Press ; Distributed in the United States of America exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Series:Anthropology, culture, and society.
Subjects:
1900-2099
Xhosa (African people)
Post-apartheid era > South Africa > East London.
Urbanization > South Africa > East London.
Acculturation > South Africa > East London.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Geography.
Acculturation
Post-apartheid era
Social conditions
Urbanization
East London (South Africa) > Social conditions > 20th century.
East London (South Africa) > Social conditions > 21st century.
South Africa > East London
Online Access:Click for online access
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Summary:"This book revisits and updates some classic Anthropology - the Xhosa in Town series - based on research in the South African city of East London conducted during the 1950s. The original studies concluded that there were two opposed responses to urbanisation in East London's African locations, one embracing Westernisation, European values and Christianity and another opposed to it. The studies have been the subject of intense anthropological debate. Leslie Bank returned to the areas of East London studied in the 1950s to assess how social and political changes have transformed these areas, in particular the apartheid reconstruction of the 1960s and 1970s and the struggle for liberation followed by the post-Apartheid period in the 1980s and 1990s. Bank has added important theoretical insights to this rich ethnography, and forged strong links with issues that transcend the particularities of his urban study."--Provided by publisher
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 276 pages) : illustrations, map
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-263) and index.
ISBN:9781849645959
1849645957
9781783713783
178371378X
Language:English.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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