From Peripatetic Anthropology to the Ethnography of Roads and Motorisation in Africa

This paper is based on 10 months of field work between 2009 and 2014 in Cape Verde, and provides an overview of the anthropological literature in which motor vehicles and African roads are studied as social phenomena. Until the end of the twentieth century, most ethnographies have failed to focus on...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gerard Horta
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto Universitário de Lisboa 2019-07-01
Series:Cadernos de Estudos Africanos
Subjects:
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/cea/4118