Phoning anthropologists: The mobile phone's (re-)shaping of anthropological research

Mobile Phones: The New Talking Drums of Everyday Africa

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 23-49

  Pelckmans, Lotte ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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