The Cell Phone: An Anthropology of Communication

by Daniel Miller and Heather Horst

Book Overview

Few modern innovations have spread quite so quickly as the cell phone. This technology has transformed communication throughout the world.

Mobile telecommunications have had a dramatic effect in many regions, but perhaps nowhere more than for low-income populations in countries such as Jamaica, where in the last few years many people have moved from no phone to cell phone. This book reveals the central role of communication in helping low-income...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845204018
• ISBN13: 9781845204013
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.5" x 9.2"