Culture's calling: Mobile phones, gender, and the making of an African migrant village in Lisbon;A cultura está chamando: Telefones celulares, gênero, e a fabricação duma aldeia Africana migratória em Lisboa

Anthropological Quarterly

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 163-190

  Johnson, Michelle C ^a  

^a BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender; Guinea Bissau; Mobile phones; Portugal; Technology; Transnationalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874612280     PISSN: 00035491     EISSN: 15341518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/anq.2013.0002     Document Type: Article

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