Expectations of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt (Perspectives on Southern Africa)
"The development of urban anthropology as a distinctive subdiscipline owes much to the steady stream of research on Zambian cities since the early 1940s. . . . Zambianists have contributed significantly to our empirical and theoretical understnading of social processes in urban spaces. Ferguson's "Expectations of Modernity is a marvelous contribution to this long-standing tradition. . . . This is a textually dense, data rich, and theoretically sophisticated work that merits inclusion among the classics of urban anthropology."--"International Journal of African Historical Studies