Mobile Secrets
Information and communications technology (ICT) has been hailed as the holy grail of “transformational development”, the source of growing innovations (such as the sending…
Read MoreInformation and communications technology (ICT) has been hailed as the holy grail of “transformational development”, the source of growing innovations (such as the sending…
Read MoreJulie Archambault’s Mobile Secrets is an ethnographically vivid and distinctive contribution to the ever growing anthropological literature on the topic of youth in Africa….
Read MoreMonrovia Modern is a beautiful and perceptive book that describes the limitations and contradictions of architectural forms of political and urban imaginations in Monrovia….
Read MoreAs a contributor to a recent issue in Cultural Anthropology noted, enough attention has been devoted to sovereignty over the past 15 years to…
Read MoreWorking the System is a great book. It holds the promise of its subtitle and offers a deep ‘political ethnography of the new Angola’….
Read MoreIn Moving by the Spirit: Pentecostal Social Life on the Zambian Copperbelt, Naomi Haynes provides a compelling ethnographic study of the centrality of Pentecostal…
Read MoreIn her new book, Kirsten Doughty provides us with an ethnographic account of the paradoxes, contradictions and omissions of remediation processes in post-genocide Rwanda….
Read MoreFrom patronising hierarchical superiors to casual, zero-hour contracts, to pension cuts, we are witnessing in many countries the entrenchment of a two-tier system of…
Read MoreWhat is ‘crime’? A social pathology? A violation of social order? The object or raison d’être of law enforcement? How can we best conceive…
Read MoreThose of the general public who have heard of milk kinship usually regard milk kinship as a feature of “primitive”, “tribal” lineage-based societies, often…
Read MoreThis post belongs into a series of posts on the workshop “The Future of Central Asian Studies” organized by Prof. Dr. Judith Beyer and…
Read MoreCentral to the capturing cover-image, the downhill stone-paved street of the Pazari district of Gjirokastër, south Albania, reflects the orientation of Dimitris Dalakoglou’s book…
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