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

Published London ; New York : Pluto Press ; Johannesburg : Wits University Press ; New York, NY : Distributed in the United States of America exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (x, 276 pages) : illustrations, map Series Anthropology, culture and society Anthropology, culture, and society. Contents Towards and anthropology of urbanism -- The Xhosa in town revisited -- Modernism, space and identity -- Rebellion, fractured urbanism and the fear of fire -- The style of the comrades -- Changing migrant cultures -- Re-modelling the house -- The rhythms of the yards -- Post-apartheid suburb or hyper-ghetto 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-263) and index Notes English Print version record In Academic Library Subject 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 Xhosa (African people) SUBJECT East London (South Africa) -- Social conditions -- 20th century East London (South Africa) -- Social conditions -- 21st century Subject South Africa -- East London Form Electronic book ISBN 9781849645959 1849645957 9781783713783 178371378X

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