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‘Half-London’ in Zambia: contested identities in a Catholic mission school
Engelsk
Bogcover for ‘Half-London’ in Zambia: contested identities in a Catholic mission school af Anthony Simpson, 9780748618040
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Engelsk
Sider:
224
ISBN-13:
9780748618040
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
074861804X
Udg. Dato:
12 maj 2003
Størrelse i cm:
15,7 x 23,5 x 1,5
Oplagsdato:
12 maj 2003
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‘Half-London’ in Zambia: contested identities in a Catholic mission school

Engelsk
Paperback 2003
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This book describes and analyses life in ''St Antony''s'', a Zambian Catholic boys'' mission boarding school in the 1990s, using the context-sensitive methods of social anthropology. Drawing upon Michel Foucault''s notion of the panoptic gaze, Anthony Simpson demonstrates how students are both drawn to mission education as a ''civilising process'', yet also resist many of the lessons that the official institution offers, particularly with respect to claims of ''true'' Christian identity and educated masculinity. The phrase ''Half-London'' reflects the boys'' own perception of their privileged but very partial grasp, in the Zambian context of acute socio-economic decline, of ''civilised'' status. The book offers unparalleled detail and insight into the contribution of mission schooling to the processes of postcolonial identity formation in Africa. Its rich and compelling ethnography opens up a strong sense of everyday life within the school and raises compelling questions about identity in plural societies beyond
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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
224
ISBN-13:
9780748618040
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
074861804X
Udg. Dato:
12 maj 2003
Størrelse i cm:
15,7 x 23,5 x 1,5
Oplagsdato:
12 maj 2003
Forfatter(e):
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