Home -> Title
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: In the Meantime
Adeline Masquelier and Deborah Durham
Chapter 1. “Just Waiting”: Korean Chinese Mobility and Immobility in Transnational Migration
June Hee Kwon
Chapter 2. In the Meanplace: Traversing Boom and Bust in China’s High Growth/Ghost Town
Michael Alexander Ulfstjerne
Entretemps: “A Lot of Standing Around in the Dark”: Specters of Waiting in Paranormal Research
Misty L. Bastian
Chapter 3. Raising Consciousness in the Costa Rican Seasonal Low
Sabia McCoy-Torres
Chapter 4. Stranded in Decolonization: The Attritional Temporality of Sahrawi Activism in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara
Mark Drury
Entretemps: Machine-Made Time: Dialysis and the Complexities of Waiting and Planning
Janelle S. Taylor and Ann M. O’Hare
Chapter 5. Waiting for Thieves: Nighttime Capital and the Labor of Sitting in Niger
Adeline Masquelier
Chapter 6. Waiting to Heal in “Crip Time”: Temporalities of Chronic Skin Wounds amongst Gunshot Survivors in New Orleans
Daniella Santoro
Entretemps: Urgency, Boredom and Pandemic Mean/Time(s)
Martin Demant Frederiksen
Chapter 7. African Time,Waiting, and Deadlines in Botswana
Deborah Durham
Chapter 8. Waiting Out the Rush: On the Durability of Wealth in Kenya’s Coastal Sex Economies
George Paul Meiu
Afterword: In Slow Time
Thomas Hylland Eriksen
In the Meantime
Toward an Anthropology of the Possible
Edited by Adeline Masquelier and Deborah Durham
Afterword by Thomas Hylland Eriksen
240 pages, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-80073-886-7 Hb Published (March 2023)
eISBN 978-1-80073-887-4 eBook