{"product_id":"the-fractured-community-landscapes-of-power-and-gender-in-rural-zambia-9780520206601","title":"The Fractured Community: Landscapes Of Power And Gender In Rural Zambia","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Kate A.F. Crehan\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Univ of California Pr\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Univ of California Pr\u003cbr\u003e • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs\", \"Sociology and Anthropology\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Anthropology - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis study examines the lives of the women and men living in two small rural communities in Zambia on the eve of the collapse of the one-party state in the 1980s. Moving beyond the limits of traditional ethnography, Kate Crehan traces the often complex ways in which local, day-to-day realities are linked to wider economic, political, imaginative structures of power beyond northwestern Zambia. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on extensive fieldwork, Crehan examines economics and gender, politics and kin relations, state and local relations, and witchcraft. Situating her data within a sophisticated yet accessible theoretical framework, she uncovers the power relations that have shaped and defined these communities. Among Crehan's theoretical contributions is a deft argument for the use of Antonio Gramsci's notion of hegemony to analyze ordinary life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis examination of a marginalized, rural society throws unexpected light on some of the concrete realities of capitalism in contemporary sub-Saharan Africa. It also provides inspiring examples of how complicated theoretical viewpoints can be translated--without simplification--into clear starting points for research.","brand":"Univ of California Pr","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46835707379863,"sku":"9780520206601","price":1073.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780520206601.webp?v=1768997441","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-fractured-community-landscapes-of-power-and-gender-in-rural-zambia-9780520206601","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}