Objects of Life in Central Africa

Robert Ross, Ph.D. (1974), Cambridge University, is Professor of African History at Leiden University. He has published extensively on South African history, recently focusing on material culture. He is co-editor of Cambridge History of South Africa(Cambridge University Press, 2010).Marja Hinfelaar, Ph.D. (2001) in History, Utrecht University, is a historian working at the National Archives of Zambia, where she coordinates digitisation projects. Her research interests include the historical relationship between church and state in Zambia. Iva Peša is a historian and is currently doing her PhD at Leiden University on the social history of Mwinilunga District in northwestern Zambia. Her interests include the changing patterns of (agricultural) production, consumption, labour migration and social relationships.

• CONTENTSList of Illustrations List of Contributors Introduction: Material Culture and Consumption Patterns: A Southern African Revolution Robert Ross, Marja Hinfelaar and Iva PešaPART IPRE-COLONIAL TRADE AND FIREARMSWearing Cloth, Wielding Guns: Consumption, Trade, and Politics in the South Central African Interior during the Nineteenth Century David GordonThe Role of Firearms in the Songye Region (1869–1960) Donatien Dibwe Dia MwembuPART IIMIGRANCY, MOBILITY AND INNOVATIONSipilingas: Intraregional African Initiatives and the United Methodist Church in Katanga and Zambia, 1910–1945 J. Jeffrey Hoover‘Walking Home Majestically’: Consumption and the Enactment of Social Status among Labour Migrants from Barotseland, 1935–1965 Michael BarrettRailways, Railway Culture, and ‘Industrial Work Discipline’ in the Rhodesias Kenneth P. VickeryPART IIIADVERTISING AND ENTREPRENEURSHIPAdvertising, Consuming Manufactured Goods and Contracting Colonial Hegemony on the Zambian Copperbelt, 1945–1964Walima T. KalusaFabricating Dreams: Sewing Machines, Tailors, and Urban Entrepreneurship in Zambia Karen Tranberg HansenPART IVTRADERSIndian Traders as Agents of Western Technological Consumption and Social Change in Mukuni: Memories of the Sharma Brothers’ Trading Store, 1950s to 1964 Friday MufuziThe Social and Economic Impact of the Fort Jameson (Chipata) Indians on the Development of Chipata District, 1899–1973 Bizeck J. PhiriBusiness, Consumption and Politics: Robinson Nabulyato’s Banamwaze Store, 1949–1969 Marja HinfelaarBuying Pineapples, Selling Cloth Traders and Trading Stores in Mwinilunga District, 1940–1970 Iva PešaIndex