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Title
Cruising through uncertainty: cell phones and the politics of display and disguise in Inhambane, Mozambique |
Full text
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/amet.12007/abstract; http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1548-1425 |
Date
2013 |
Author(s)
Archambault, Julie Soleil |
Abstract
Cell phones play a conspicuous role in the way young people in Inhambane, Mozambique, juggle visibility and invisibility in their everyday lives. By opening up new social spaces within which individuals can engage in various pursuits with some degree of discretion, cell phone communication helps redress socioeconomic inequalities while preserving an unpleasant public secret about the workings of Mozambique's postwar economy: that young women are encouraged to exchange sexual favors for material gain. Drawing on the literature on secrecy and building on the local notion of 'visão,' I propose an extended use of the idea of 'social navigation' that captures concerns about appearances and the reproduction of wider epistemologies of ignorance. - © 2013 by the American Anthropological Association. All rights reserved. The full-text of this article is not available in ORA. You may be able to access the article via the publisher copy link above. |
Subject(s)
Africa; Anthropology; Children and youth; Commerce,communications,transport; Social anthropology; Women; cell phones; Mozambique; youth; secrecy; social navigation; intimiate economy; respect; appearances |
Language
en |
Relation
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/amet.12007/abstract; http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1548-1425 |
Type of publication
text; Article: post-print; Published; Peer reviewed; Publisher's version |
Format
Published; born digital |
Identifier
uuid:4cf88a9b-782e-4d76-91c4-4825fade0568; doi: 10.1111/amet.12007; issn: 0094-0496; eissn: 1548-1425; Oxford Research Archive internal ID: ora:8354; ora:8354; urn:uuid:4cf88a9b-782e-4d76-91c4-4825fade0568 |
Repository
Oxford - Research Archive, University of Oxford
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