Mobile phones
Subtitle: the new talking drums of everyday Africa
By: Mirjam de Bruijn, Francis Nyamnjoh & Inge Brinkman (editors)
Publisher: Langaa; African Studies Centre
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Bamenda, Cameroon; Leiden, the Netherlands
Language: eng
Number of pages: 173
ISBN-13: 9789956558537
Copyright date: 2009
Subjects: Cell phones
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: An excerpt from Married but available, a novel / Francis B. Nyamnjoh; title: Mobile communications and new social spaces in Africa / Mirjam de Bruijn, Francis B. Nyamnjoh, Inge Brinkman; title: Phoning anthropologists : the mobile phone's (re-)shaping of anthropological research / Lotte Pelckmans; title: From the elitist to the commonality of voice communication : the history of the telephone in Buea, Cameroon / Walter Gam Nkwi; title: The mobile phone, 'modernity' and change in Khartoum, Sudan / Inge Brinkman, Mirjam de Bruijn, Hisham Bilal; title: Trading places in Tanzania : mobile and marginalisation at a time of travel-saving technologies / Thomas Molony; title: Téléphonie mobile : l'appropriation du SMS par une "société de l'oralité" / Ludovic Kibora; title: The healer and his phone : medicinal dynamics among the Kapsiki Higi of North Cameroon / Wouter van Beek; title: The mobility of a mobile phone : examining 'Swahiliness' through an object's biography / Julia Pfaff; title: Could connectivity replace mobility? : an analysis of Internet café use patterns in Accra, Ghana.