Anthony Simpson, 'Half London' in Zambia: contested identities in a Catholic mission school.(Book Review)

ANTHONY SIMPSON, 'Half London' in Zambia: contested identities in a Catholic mission school. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, for the International Africa Institute (paperback 16.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 7486 1804 X). 2003, 224 pp.

This is a thoughtful ethnography about the relationships and rituals within an elite, post-colonial boarding school where Catholic expatriates suffered crises of confidence, school administration was reordered from a Catholic system to a British public school model, and young men found their own ways to adulthood.

Simpson taught at this ...

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