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          Urbanization, and mass immigration.

        1. Tracing the commodity flow from the global North to Zambia, Karen Tranberg Hansen explored sourcing, handling, buying, selling, and use.
        2. Distant Companions tells the fascinating story of the lives and times of domestic servants and their employers in Zambia from the beginning of white settlement.
        3. This paper analyses selected readers' letters published in the women's columns of three cornerstone newspapers of the Nigerian press: “Our Women's Page” in.
        4. In order to examine the servant- employer relationship within the context of larger political and economic processes, Karen Tranberg Hansen employs an unusual.

          5. Distant Companions tells the fascinating story of the lives and times of domestic servants and their employers in Zambia from the beginning of white settlement....

          DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY

          Research and teaching interests

          Urban Anthropology, Political Economy, Economic Anthropology, Consumption and Material Culture, Dress and Fashion, Gender Relations, Southern Africa, Development Issues

          Biography

          Karen Tranberg Hansen taught in the Department of Anthropology and African Studies at Northwestern University from 1982 to 2012, when she retired.  Most of her research as a socio-cultural anthropologist has been conducted in Zambia.  Her research interests have focused on the informal economy, domesticity and domestic service, youth, and consumption.  She lives permanently in Copenhagen, Denmark, and continues to work and write about issues related to urban life and consumption, especially especially dress and fashion in contemporary Africa.

          She is particularly interested in the clothing practices and everyday dynamics of dress and fashion performance.

          Special honors:

          • Academic year 1997-98, fellowship at the National Humanit