基本説明
Explores aspects of the social history and anthropology of the motor-vehicle in Africa.
Full Description
In the early 1900s the motor-vehicle (car, bus, lorry or motor-cycle) was introduced in sub-Saharan Africa. Initially the plaything and symbol of colonial domination, the motor-vehicle transformed the economic and social life of the continent. Indeed, the motor-vehicle is arguably the single most important factor for change in Africa in the twentieth century. A factor for change that thus far has been neglected in research and literature. Yet its impact extends across the totality of human existence; from ecological devastation to economic advancement, from cultural transformation to political change, through to a myriad of other themes. This edited volume of eleven contributions by historians, anthropologists and social and political scientists explores aspects of the social history and anthropology of the motor-vehicle in Africa.
Contents
Contents
List of photographs ix
List of maps x
Preface xi
MOTOR VEHICLES AND PEOPLE IN AFRICA: AN INTRODUCTION 1
Jan-Bart Gewald, Sabine Luning & Klaas van Walraven
PART I: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
1 PEOPLE, MINES AND CARS: TOWARDS A REVISION OF
ZAMBIAN HISTORY, 1890-1930 21
Jan-Bart Gewald
2 MOTORCARS AND MODERNITY: PINING FOR PROGRESS
IN PORTUGUESE GUINEA, 1915-1945 48
Philip J. Havik
3. VEHICLE OF SEDITION: THE ROLE OF TRANSPORT WORKERS
IN SAWABA'S REBELLION IN NIGER, 1954-1966 75
Klaas van Walraven
PART II: ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES
4 HUG ME, HOLD ME TIGHT! THE EVOLUTION OF PASSENGER
TRANSPORT IN LUANDA AND HUAMBO (ANGOLA),
1975-2000 107
Carlos M. Lopes
5. STRIKING GOLD IN COTONOU? THREE CASES OF
ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE EURO-WEST AFRICAN
SECOND-HAND CAR TRADE IN BENIN 127
Joost Beuving
8 table of contents
PART III: ANTROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES
6 THE ART OF TRUCK MODDING ON THE NILE (SUDAN):
AN ATTEMPT TO TRACE CREATIVITY 151
Kurt Beck
7 THE HILUX AND THE 'BODY THROWER': KHAT TRANSPORTERS
IN KENYA 175
Neil Carrier
8 MODERN CHARIOTS: SPEED AND MOBILITY IN CONTEMPORARY
'SMALL' WARS IN THE SAHARA 191
Georg Klute
9 RELIGION ON THE ROAD: THE SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE OF ROAD
TRAVEL IN GHANA 212
Gabriel Klaeger
10 A CHIEF'S FATAL CAR ACCIDENT: POLITICAL HISTORY AND
MORAL GEOGRAPHY IN BURKINA FASO 232
Sabine Luning
11 'ANYWAY!': LORRY INSCRIPTIONS IN GHANA 253
Sjaak van der Geest
List of authors 295
Index 297
