Author: Hansen, Karen Tranberg
Title: Distant Companions : Servants and Employers in Zambia, 1900 - 1985
Description: Ithaca, Cornell University Press, (1989). orig. cloth. xv,321 pp. 24x16cm,. Textual photos & tables. Some binding astains. Some page-edge spotting. Good. ¶ Contents: Introduction: The Problem & Its Context; A Fixture of Colonial Society: The Creation of a Gender Role: The Male Domestic Servant; Women for Hire? Sex & Gender in Domestic Service; Troubled Lives: Servants & Their Employers in the Preindependence Era; Encountering Domestic Service: Research on & Life with Servants; Colonial Legacies & Postcolonial Changes:Persistance & Change; A Transformed Occupation; Lives Beyond the Workplace; Servants Everywhere: Conclusions; Appendices: Servants' Wages; Servants' Budgets.

Keywords: African Ethnology, Domestic Labor, Colonial History, British Colonies, Zambia Colony, Southern Africa, Social Anthropology, Servants Domestics, Servant Labour, Sociology