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).
"The development of urban anthropology as a distinctive subdiscipline owes much to the steady stream of research on Zambian cities since the early 1940s. . . . Zambianists have contributed significantly to our empirical and theoretical understnading of social processes in urban spaces. Ferguson's "Expectations of Modernity is a marvelous contribution to this long-standing tradition. . . . This is a textually dense, data rich, and theoretically sophisticated work that merits inclusion among the classics of urban anthropology."--"International Journal of African Historical Studies
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