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7 - “Your Mouth Is Your Lorry!”: How Honk Horns Voice the Acoustic Materiality of Reputation in Accra

from Part II - Transformation, Aesthetics, Embodiment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 October 2017

Jillian R. Cavanaugh
Affiliation:
CUNY, New York
Shalini Shankar
Affiliation:
Northwestern University, Illinois
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Language and Materiality
Ethnographic and Theoretical Explorations
, pp. 125 - 143
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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