Author: Irving FreidsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Motor Roads in Africa
Author: Irving FreidsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Motor Roads in South Africa
Author: Barton Potter RootPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 58
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African Motors
Author: Joshua GracePublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 1478021276
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
In African Motors, Joshua Grace examines how Tanzanian drivers, mechanics, and passengers reconstituted the automobile into a uniquely African form between the late 1800s and the early 2000s. Drawing on hundreds of oral histories, extensive archival research, and his ethnographic fieldwork as an apprentice in Dar es Salaam's network of garages, Grace counters the pervasive narratives that Africa is incompatible with technology and that the African use of cars is merely an appropriation of technology created elsewhere. Although automobiles were invented in Europe and introduced as part of colonial rule, Grace shows how Tanzanians transformed them, increasingly associating their own car use with maendeleo, the Kiswahili word for progress or development. Focusing on the formation of masculinities based in automotive cultures, Grace also outlines the process through which African men remade themselves and their communities by adapting technological objects and systems for local purposes. Ultimately, African Motors is an African-centered story of development featuring everyday examples of Africans forging both individual and collective cultures of social and technological wellbeing through movement, making, and repair.
The Making of the African Road
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004339043
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
The Making of the African Road offers an account of the long-distance road in Africa. Being a latecomer to automobility and far from saturated mass mobility, the African road continues to be open for diverging interpretations and creative appropriations. The road regime on the continent is thus still under construction, and it is made in more than one sense: physically, socially, politically, morally and cosmologically. The contributions to this volume provide first-hand anthropological insights into the infrastructural, economic, historical as well as experiential dimensions of the emerging orders of the African road. Contributors are: Kurt Beck, Amiel Bize, Michael Bürge, Luca Ciabarri, Gabriel Klaeger, Mark Lamont, Tilman Musch, Michael Stasik, Rami Wadelnour.
Catalogue of the Public Documents of the ... Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States for the Period from ... to ...
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1510
Book Description
Trade Promotion Series
Author: The Crown Colonist
Author: West Africa
Author: Great Britain. Colonial OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ghana
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Publications of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Author: United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic CommercePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Catalogue of the Public Documents of the [the Fifty-third] Congress [to the 76th Congress] and of All Departments of the Government of the United States
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Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 2822
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