Social Change through Imagery and Values of Teen-Age Africans in Northern Rhodesia

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Title:	Social Change through Imagery and Values of Teen-Age Africans in Northern Rhodesia
Author:	Powdermaker, Hortense
Year:	1956
Periodical:	American Anthropologist
Volume:	58
Issue:	5
Period:	October
Pages:	783-813
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Zambia
Subjects:	psychology youth social change Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Literature, Mass Media and the Press
Abstract:	The author was particularly interested in studying traditional and modern elements in the Africans' values as portrayed in their concepts of good interpersonal relations and in their fantasies of what they would like to be, as well as in their more concrete goals and ambitions. A knowledge of the Africans' self-imagery and their imagery of Europeans was also a necessary part of the larger study of problems of communication between Europeans and Africans. She was likewise concerned with differences and similarities between male and female on all these points. This paper based on fieldwork in 1954-55, represents a small segment of the larger study.