Road mythographies: Space, mobility, and the historical imagination in postcolonial Niger

American Ethnologist

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 829-856

  Masquelier, Adeline ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Imagination; Mobility; Modernity; Niger; Roads; Space; Spirits

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036872568     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/ae.2002.29.4.829     Document Type: Review

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