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Mobile Phones : the New Talking Drums of Everyday Africa.
'We cannot imagine life now without a mobile phone' is a frequent comment when Africans are asked about mobile phones. They have become part and parcel of the communication landscape in many urban and rural areas of Africa and the growth of mobile telephony is amazing: from 1 in 50 people...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Langaa RPCIG
2009.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of photos; Preface; An excerpt from Married but available, a novel by Francis B. Nyamnjoh; 1. Introduction: Mobile communication and new social spaces in Africa; 2. Phoning anthropologists: The mobile phone's (re- )shaping of anthropological research; 3. From the elitist to the commonality of voice communication: The history of the telephone in Buea, Cameroon; 4. The mobile phone, 'modernity' and change in Khartoum, Sudan; 5. Trading places in Tanzania: Mobility and marginalization at a time of travel-saving technologies.
- 6. Téléphonie mobile. L'appropriation du sms par une " société de l'oralité "7. The healer and his phone: Medicinal dynamics among the Kapsiki/Higi of North Cameroon; 8. The mobility of a mobile phone: Examining 'Swahiliness' through an object's biography; 9. Could connectivity replace mobility? An analysis of Internet café use patterns in Accra, Ghana; List of authors; Back Cover.