LEADER 03833nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910808786903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9789956579143$b(electronic book) 010 $a9789956615056$b(electronic book) 010 $z9789956558537$b(paperback) 035 $a(CKB)2670000000029879 035 $a(EBL)1134970 035 $a(OCoLC)743202277 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000432105 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11267640 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000432105 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10477552 035 $a(PQKB)10732515 035 $a(OCoLC)646835796 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse21939 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1134970 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10333783 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL300488 035 $a(PPN)187340056 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1134970 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000029879 100 $a20091123d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu---unuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aMobile phones $ethe new talking drums of everyday Africa /$fMirjam de Bruijn, Francis Nyamnjoh and Inge Brinkman, editors 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aCameroon $cLangaa Research & Pub. Common Initiative Group$d2009 215 $a1 online resource $cillustrations 225 1 $aLangaa & African Studies Centre 311 08$aPrint version: Mobile phones. Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa ; Leiden, the Netherlands : African Studies Centre, ©2009 9956558532 (OCoLC)436111572 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aAn excerpt from Married but available, a novel / Francis B. Nyamnjoh -- Mobile communications and new social spaces in Africa / Mirjam de Bruijn, Francis B. Nyamnjoh, Inge Brinkman -- Phoning anthropologists : the mobile phone's (re-)shaping of anthropological research / Lotte Pelckmans -- From the elitist to the commonality of voice communication : the history of the telephone in Buea, Cameroon / Walter Gam Nkwi -- The mobile phone, 'modernity' and change in Khartoum, Sudan / Inge Brinkman, Mirjam de Bruijn, Hisham Bilal -- Trading places in Tanzania : mobile and marginalisation at a time of travel-saving technologies / Thomas Molony -- Telephonie mobile : l'appropriation du SMS par une "societe de l'oralite" / Ludovic Kibora -- The healer and his phone : medicinal dynamics among the Kapsiki Higi of North Cameroon / Wouter van Beek -- The mobility of a mobile phone : examining 'Swahiliness' through an object's biography / Julia Pfaff -- Could connectivity replace mobility? : an analysis of Internet cafe use patterns in Accra, Ghana. 330 $aWe cannot imagine life now without a mobile phone' is a frequent comment when Africans are asked about mobile phones. They have become part and parcel of the communication landscape in many urban and rural areas of Africa and the growth of mobile telephony is amazing: from 1 in 50 people being users in 2000 to 1 in 3 in 2008. Such growth is impressive but it does not even begin to tell us about the many ways in which mobile phones are being appropriated by Africans and how they are transforming or are being transformed by society in Africa. This volume ventures into such appropriation and mutu 410 0$aAfrican Studies Centre research series. 606 $aCell phones$zAfrica 606 $aTelecommunication 615 0$aCell phones 615 0$aTelecommunication. 676 $a302.2096 701 $aDe Bruijn$b Mirjam$0879285 701 $aNyamnjoh$b Francis$0693066 701 $aBrinkman$b Inge$0699431 712 02$aLangaa groupe d'intiative commune en recherche et publication. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910808786903321 996 $aMobile phones$94190427 997 $aUNINA