Distant companions : servants and employers in Zambia, 1900-1985 /

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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 f...

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Frontmatter --
Contents --
Illustrations, Maps, and Tables --
Preface --
Abbreviations --
Introduction. The Problem and Its Context --
Part I. Fixture of Colonial Society --
1. The Creation of a Gender Role: The Male Domestic Servant --
2. Women For Hire? Sex And Gender In Domestic Service --
3. Troubled Lives: Servants and Their Employers in the Preindependence Era --
Part II. Encountering Domestic Service --
4. Research On And Life With Servants --
PART III. Colonial Legacies and Postcolonial Changes --
5. Persistence and Change --
6. A Transformed Occupation --
7. Lives Beyond the Workplace --
8. Servants Everywhere: Conclusions --
Appendix 1. Servants' Wages --
Appendix 2. Servants' Budgets --
Index
1. Verfasser:
Hansen, Karen Tranberg
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Ithaca, New York ; London, [England] : Cornell University Press, 1989.
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
Zusammenfassung:
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 of domestic service in a variety of settings. In order to examine the servant- employer relationship within the context of larger political and economic processes, Karen Tranberg Hansen employs an unusual combination of methods, including analysis of historical documents, travelogues, memoirs, literature, and life histories, as well as anthropological fieldwork, survey research, and participant observation.
Umfang:
1 online resource (340 pages) : illustrations.
Anmerkungen:
In English.
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Schriftenreihe:
Cornell paperbacks
ISBN:
9781501727917
1501727915
9780801495465
0801495466
9781501719950
1501719955
Zugangseinschränkungen:
Open access
Schlagworte:
Household employees > Zambia > History > 20th century.
Sexual division of labor > Zambia > History > 20th century.
Master and servant > Zambia > History > 20th century.
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