Nefissa Naguib

Nefissa Naguib is Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo.

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HandsOn: Touching the Digital Planet

Theorizing the Contemporary

HandsOn: Touching the Digital Planet

HandsOn is about the extraordinary ways our fingers and hands sense, guide, and grip our digital world. In this series we examine the tensions and connections b... More

Introduction: HandsOn

Theorizing the Contemporary

Introduction: HandsOn

Digital—a word derived from the Latin for finger. HandsOn is about the extraordinary ways our fingers and hands create, shape, and preserve interaction with and... More

Hands on the Water

Theorizing the Contemporary

Hands on the Water

Every time out at sea the weather seemed a little colder. The men’s tempers shorter. Per[1] was a jointer on the cable repair ship Faith[2] for many years, unti... More

The Poetics of Deep Reading: A Field Guide to Getting Lost in a Book

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The Poetics of Deep Reading: A Field Guide to Getting Lost in a Book

When was the last time you read a book without checking your phone? Two years ago, we posed this question to our undergraduate students in political anthropol... More