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The Social Life of Connectivity in Africa

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    Chapter 1 Introduction Connectivity and the Postglobal Moment: (Dis)connections and Social Change in Africa
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    Chapter 2 Flows and Forces: Once Contained, Now Detained? On Connections Past and Present in Rwanda
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    Chapter 3 Research Practice in Connections: Travels and Methods
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    Chapter 4 Patriarchy Turned Upside Down: The Flight of the Royal Women of Kom, Cameroon from 1920 to the 1960s
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    Chapter 5 Beyond the Last Frontier: Major Trollope and the Eastern Caprivi Zipfel
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    Chapter 6 The “Victorian Internet” Reaches Halfway to Cairo: Cape Tanganyika Telegraphs, 1875–1926
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    Chapter 7 Marriages and Mobility in Akan Societies: Disconnections and Connections over Time and Space
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    Chapter 8 A Ritual Connection: Urban Youth Marrying in the Village in Botswana
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    Chapter 9 Connecting Communities and Business: Public-Private Partnerships as the Panacea for Land Reform in Limpopo Province, South Africa
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    Chapter 10 Connectivities Compared: Transnational Islamic NGOs in Chad and Senegal
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    Chapter 11 Love Therapy: A Brazilian Pentecostal (Dis)connection in Maputo
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    Chapter 12 Ajala Travel: Mobility and Connections as Forms of Social Capital in Nigerian Society
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    Chapter 13 Connecting “Ourselves”: A Dogon Ethnic Association and the Impact of Connectivity
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    Chapter 14 Intimate Strangers: Connecting Fiction and Ethnography
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Title
The Social Life of Connectivity in Africa
Published by
Palgrave Macmillan, December 2012
DOI 10.1057/9781137278029
ISBNs
978-1-137-27801-2, 978-1-349-44749-7, 978-1-137-27803-6, 978-1-137-27802-9
Authors

de Bruijn, Mirjam, van Dijk, Rijk

Editors

Bruijn, M. de, Dijk, R. van

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Belgium 1 4%
Unknown 22 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 30%
Student > Master 3 13%
Student > Bachelor 2 9%
Researcher 2 9%
Professor 2 9%
Other 3 13%
Unknown 4 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 8 35%
Arts and Humanities 5 22%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 9%
Philosophy 1 4%
Environmental Science 1 4%
Other 2 9%
Unknown 4 17%