Bruijn, Mirjam
The Social Life of Connectivity in Africa
1. Introduction Connectivity and the Postglobal Moment: (Dis)connections and Social Change in Africa
Mirjam Bruijn, Rijk Dijk
2. Flows and Forces: Once Contained, Now Detained? On Connections Past and Present in Rwanda
Danielle Lame
3. Research Practice in Connections: Travels and Methods
Mirjam Bruijn, Inge Brinkman
4. Patriarchy Turned Upside Down: The Flight of the Royal Women of Kom, Cameroon from 1920 to the 1960s
Walter Gam Nkwi
5. Beyond the Last Frontier: Major Trollope and the Eastern Caprivi Zipfel
Jan-Bart Gewald
6. The “Victorian Internet” Reaches Halfway to Cairo: Cape Tanganyika Telegraphs, 1875–1926
Neil Parsons
7. Marriages and Mobility in Akan Societies: Disconnections and Connections over Time and Space
Astrid Bochow
8. A Ritual Connection: Urban Youth Marrying in the Village in Botswana
Rijk Dijk
9. Connecting Communities and Business: Public-Private Partnerships as the Panacea for Land Reform in Limpopo Province, South Africa
Marja Spierenburg, Ben Cousins, Angélique Bos, Lubabalo Ntsholo
10. Connectivities Compared: Transnational Islamic NGOs in Chad and Senegal
Mayke Kaag
11. Love Therapy: A Brazilian Pentecostal (Dis)connection in Maputo
Linda Kamp
12. Ajala Travel: Mobility and Connections as Forms of Social Capital in Nigerian Society
Oka Obono, Koblowe Obono
13. Connecting “Ourselves”: A Dogon Ethnic Association and the Impact of Connectivity
Walter E. A. Beek
14. Intimate Strangers: Connecting Fiction and Ethnography
Francis B. Nyamnjoh
Nyckelord: Social Sciences, Sociology of Culture, Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, African Culture, Sociology, general
- Utgivare
- Bruijn, Mirjam
- Dijk, Rijk
- Utgivare
- Springer
- Utgivningsår
- 2012
- Språk
- en
- Utgåva
- 1
- Sidantal
- 310 sidor
- Kategori
- Samhälle
- Format
- E-bok
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781137278029
- Tryckt ISBN
- 978-1-349-44749-7