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James Ferguson is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine, and the author of The Anti-Politics Machine: "Development," Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho (1990). He is also coeditor, with Akhil Gupta, of Anthropological Locations: Boundaries and Grounds of a Field Science (California, 1997) and Culture, Power, Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology (1997).
Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Urban anthropology Zambia Copperbelt Province, Urbanization Zambia Copperbelt province, Industrialization Zambia Copperbelt Province, Copper industry and trade Zambia Copperbelt Province, Copper mines and mining Zambia Copperbelt Province, Zambia Social conditions 1964-Zambia Economic conditions 1964-Zambia Politics and government