PREFACE

INTRODUCTION　Urban Tradition as a Creative Process
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PART 1　The Making of an Urban Colony 1920-1990
Chapter 1　 Coming to the City
Chapter 2　 Moving out of the Village
Chapter 3　 Surviving in the City
Chapter 4　 Remaking the Urban Colony
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PART 2　Making Flexible Social Ties
Chapter 5　 Reorganising Social Relations
Chapter 6　 Death and Mutual Aid in the City
Chapter 7　 The Co-Operative Activities of the Viguma
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PART 3　Putting up Soft Resistance
Chapter 8　 Creating Ethnicity
Chapter 9　 Organisations That Work
Chapter 10 Inventing Urban Traditions
Chapter 11　Paradigmatic Manipulation of Ritual Ideas
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CONCLUSION　Nostalgic Discourse as Soft Resistance
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX