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Remotely Global: Village Modernity in West Africa (1st Edition) by Charles Piot Paperback, 238 Pages, Published 1999 ISBN-10: 0-226-66969-6 / 0226669696 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-66969-4 / 9780226669694 At first glance, the remote villages of the Kabre people of northern Togo appear to have all the trappings of a classic "out of the way" African culture subsistence farming, straw-roofed houses, and rituals to the spirits and ancestors. Arguing that village life is in fact an effect of the modern an |