Articles · Vol. 3 No 2 (2007): Revue africaine des Livres, volume 3, n° 2, 2007

7- Domestic Service in Gaborone

  • KAREN TRANBERG HANSEN
    KAREN TRANBERG HANSEN
    is Professor of Anthropology at Northwestern University (USA). She is an urban and economic anthropologist and has published extensively on different aspects of urban livelihoods, including Distant Companions: Servants and Employers in Zambia, 1900-1985 (Cornell 1989),...
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Insiders & Outsiders: Citizenship and Xenophobia in Contemporary Southern Africa by Francis B. Nyamnjoh, CODESRIA, in association with ZED Books and University of South Africa Press, 2006, 275 pp.

This book is part of Africa in the New Millennium, a series initiated by CODESRIA to present African scholarship on current policy and practice issues. More specifically, the book is “a tiny part of many more reflections to come” (p. ix) resulting from a comparative research network on “Globalisation, Migration, Citizenship and Xenophobia in South Africa, Botswana, and Zimbabwe”, which Nyamnjoh coordinated for two years from Gaborone...

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  • KAREN TRANBERG HANSEN

    is Professor of Anthropology at Northwestern University (USA). She is an urban and economic anthropologist and has published extensively on different aspects of urban livelihoods, including Distant Companions: Servants and Employers in Zambia, 1900-1985 (Cornell 1989), Keeping House in Lusaka (Columbia 1997), Salaula: The World of Secondhand Clothing and Zambia (Chicago 2000) and edited, with Mariken Vaa, Reconsidering Informality: New Research from Africa (Nordic Africa Institute 2004).