A collection of papers depicting life in the copperbelt townships of Zambia, a decade before independence. New material is combined with some more well-known essays, covering the role of networks in urban social organization; the emergence of CiCopperbelti, the distinctive language of the towns; and the remarkable evangelical success of Jehovah's Witnesses. A chapter on the resurgence of beliefs in "banyama" or vampires appears for the first time in this collection and a specially written retrospect is a personal account of Epstein's years of fieldwork in the copperbelt.
- ISBN10 0748603212
- ISBN13 9780748603213
- Publish Date 30 January 1992
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 7 June 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Edinburgh University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 208
- Language English