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May 21, 2008
Introducing Native Anthropologist
My name is Olumide Abimbola. I am a Nigerian PhD candidate at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany. I have an MA in Development Studies from the Department of Government, Uppsala University, Sweden.
My research is on informal transborder trade in used clothing between the Republic of Bénin and Nigeria. Theoretically, I am interested in the Sociology of Association or Actor-Network Theory. I am also interested in New Institutional Economics and the ways institutions affect trade and economic behavior. There are of course others that I cannot think of at the moment. I will write about them as they arise.
I have just created a new blog - Native Anthropologist - here on Anthroblogs.
The blog is going to be about general anthropological issues that I find interesting. At the moment I am on fieldwork in the used clothing market in Cotonou, around the border area between Benin and Nigeria, and at the retail markets in Lagos, Nigeria. Actually, I am typing this message at the market, in front of 'my' shop. So, I might end up talking about my fieldwork and research on the blog.
Yea, that is all for the moment. See you at www.anthroblogs.org/nativeanthropologist!
Posted by olumideabimbola at May 21, 2008 06:25 AM
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