MOBILE PHONES AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION AMONG FULANI PASTORALISTS IN NORTHERN BENIN.
The mobile phone has spread recently in rural Benin as one of the new technologies most widely adopted by Fulani pastoralists, who have generally been regarded as hostile to novelty. This article analyses the logic and forms of appropriation of mobile phones in connection with the socio-economic tra...
| Publicado en: | Nomadic Peoples Vol. 21; no. 1; pp. 111 - 136 |
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White Horse Press
2017
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