The Making of the African Road

The Making of the African Road offers anthropological accounts of the infrastructural, economic, political, historical as well as experiential dimensions of the African long-distance road and explores its emerging orders.

About the author

Kurt Beck (Prof. Dr.), Chair of Anthropology at the University of Bayreuth, has published mainly on the anthropology of the Sudan.
Gabriel Klaeger (Dr.) works at the Institute of Social Anthropology, Goethe University Frankfurt. His PhD thesis is entitled Speed Matters: An Ethnography of a Ghanaian Highway.
Michael Stasik (M.A.) works at the Chair of Anthropology, University of Bayreuth. His PhD thesis is entitled Station Ventures: Road Transport, Roadside Economies and Urban Hustle in Ghana.

Product details

• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.02.2017
• EAN: 9789004336742
• ISBN: 978-90-04-33674-2
• No. of pages: 290
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 233 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 419 g
• Series: Africa-Europe Group for Interd
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories