Home Spaces, Street Styles: Contesting Power and Identity in a South African City

by 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 locations, one embracing Westernisation, European values and Christianity and another opposed to it. The studies have been the subject of intense anthropological...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745323278
• ISBN13: 9780745323275
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.9"