Technologies of the spirit: Devotional Islam, sound reproduction and the dialectics of mediation and immediacy in Mauritius

Anthropological Theory

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 273-296

  Eisenlohr, Patrick ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Islam; Mauritius; Media technology; Mediation; Semiotics; Sound reproduction

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649280034     PISSN: 14634996     EISSN: 17412641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1463499609346983     Document Type: Review

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