Anthropology

This category's books

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  Message in a Mobile: Mixed-Messages, Tales of Missing and Mobile Communities at the University of Khartoum

  2011, author(s)-editor(s) Siri Lamoureaux
  This detailed, meticulous ethnographic study on mobile phone use among Nuba students at the University of Khartoum in Sudan, distinguishes itself from other studies by taking a focused look at the linguistic content of mobile phone interactions via text-messaging, portraying it as a site for the expression of personalized and affective language. While men and women appear to be equally aggressive consumers and producers of text-message poetry, women are formally discouraged in using the (...)
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  The Postcolonial Turn: Re-Imagining Anthropology and Africa

  2011, author(s)-editor(s) Francis B. Nyamnjoh, René Devisch
  This innovative book is a forward-looking reflection on mental decolonisation and the postcolonial turn in Africanist scholarship. As a whole, it provides five decennia-long lucid and empathetic research involvements by seasoned scholars who came to live, in local people’s own ways, significant daily events experienced by communities, professional networks and local experts in various African contexts. The book covers materials drawn from Botswana, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of (...)