Remotely Global
Village Modernity in West Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23398447 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Charles Piot (0000-0002-9166-9935, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Pages | 264 |
| Publication date | 1999-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Reviewed by | Remotely Global: Village Modernity in West Africa, Donald R Wright, 2001 |
| Reviewed by | Remotely Global: Village Modernity in West Africa, Joel Sherzer, 2000 |
| Venue | Remotely Global (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.7208/chicago/9780226189833.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4230374652 |
| Open Library | OL51667068M |
| ISBN | 9780226189833 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 484 |
Resetting Neoliberal Values
Nostalgia in the post-apartheid state
Surviving change by changing violently
The Ginger Option and Oppositional Agriculture in Postcolonial Sierra Leone
Experiência da mundialização como experiência hermenêutica
Azai Dosi Kfaang (Modern or Families of Newness)
Lighting a dark continent”
Eschatology, Ethics, and Ēthnos
The Death Throes of Sacrificed Chicken
Sacrificial human remains in an initiatory variant of the African waste heap (Kabye country, Togo)
Averting danger
Being modern does not mean being western
Critical African Studies
Where does fortune come from? Agrarian work ethics and luck in Togo
Enslaving Globalization
I was crying, I did not come back with anything”
Eating Time
Leaving area studies behind
Onomastic strategies
Intertwined therapeutic mobilities
Dutch Colonial Anthropology in Indonesia
All in the Junkab’al
Refugees as Gamblers
The soul is the stranger
How to read
Fairytale Cynicism in the 'Kingdom of Plastic Bags
Visualising modernity
Great Signs from Heaven
Developing an archaeology of African consumers
Of Hybridity, Modernity, and Their Malcontents
Modernizing Peasants and “Master Farmers”
New Spheres of Transnational Formations
Vernacular Security
A gendered practice of urban cultivation
Going with the Grain in African Development
Paris, Cuba, New York
Generation in debt
Pesticides are our children now’
Of Mimicry and Membership
The City as Barracks
Forbindelser gjennom bryst
Nos grands-pères achetaient des esclaves
Perils to Pregnancies
Comparing Cultures in Southern Ethiopia
Shifting Landscapes
Oracles, chieftaincies, and witchcraft accusations in south-western Togo
‘They call us killers’
‘They Call Us Killers’
Consumption and Cosmopolitanism
Marriage Is Perseverance
Television, Technology, and Culture
Hunting Game
The Politics of Poverty
Gender
Capitalism and Cloves
Global Goods
Continental Drift
Hereafter
Afterword
On Negative Becoming
Becoming Aggrieved
Heaven
Spirited Choreographies
Rebellious Matter
Horizoning
Meantime
Witness
Youth: Responding to Lives
"Brazil's "March to the West
Coerced Labor in Twentieth-Century Africa
Political Transformations and Cultural Landscapes in Senegambia during the Atlantic Era
Liberia and the History of a Franchised State
“Their Power Will Be Uniformly Supported”—Power and Memory
Law versus Tradition
In Search of Gender Justice
The Anthropology of Texts, Persons and Publics
The Port at the Edge
The Ballad of the Sad Café
The Economic Image-Function of the Periphery
Between the Burqa and the Beauty Parlor? Globalization, Cultural Nationalism, and Feminist Politics
Telecentres and transformations
Not Even Remotely Global? Method and Scale in World History
Still Standing Inside
The Hierotelic Gift
The Inconspicuous Spaces of Globalization
Discourses of climate change education
Accountability and the academy
Divergent visions
Parrainage initiatique et confiage rituel. Une relation de pseudo-parenté du point de vue des enfants (pays kabyè, Togo)
Teaching Tech by Rote
Multiple Modernities
Debating the Swahili
Maternity and Modernity in the Gold Coast, 1920s–1950s
Gyamfi’s Golden Soap
Hidden Violence of Postcolonial Africa
Beyond the gender (dis)empowerment dichotomy
Womanhood on the Streets’
Thinking through “Vernacular Cosmopolitanisms”
Doubting Modernity for Madagascar's Cactus Pastoralists
Modernity in material form? Mobile phones in the careers of Ghanaian market women
| Unique citing works | 340 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 18,62 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2026 (27) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 433 |