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Publications of Charles D. Piot    :chronological  alphabetical  combined  bibtex listing:

Books

  1. Piot, C. The Fixer: Visa Lottery Chronicles. Duke University Press, June, 2019. 232 pages pp.  [abs]
  2. Piot, C. Nostalgia For the Future: West Africa After the Cold War. University of Chicago Press, 2010. (Winner of the African Politics Conference Group Award for Best Book on African Politics published in 2010)
  3. Piot, C. Remotely Global: Village Modernity in West Africa. University of Chicago Press, 1999. (Co-winner of the Royal Anthropological Institute's Amaury Talbot Prize for Africanist Anthropology and a finalist for the African Studies Association's Herskovits Prize. French translation - "Isolement Global: la Modernite du Village au Togo" - Karthala Press, 2008.)

Published Articles

  1. Allison, A; Boyer, D; Piot, C. "FINANCING OPEN ACCESS: Introducing Friends of Cultural Anthropology." Cultural Anthropology  vol. 31 no. 2 (May, 2016.): 159-161. [doi]
  2. Allison, A; Piot, C. "Editing the times." Cultural Anthropology  vol. 30 no. 4 (November, 2015.): 525-530. [doi]
  3. Allison, A; Piot, C. "Editors' farewell." Cultural Anthropology  vol. 29 no. 4 (November, 2014.): 599-601. [doi]
  4. Harms, E; Hussain, S; Newell, S; Piot, C; Schein, L; Shneiderman, S; Turner, TS; Zhang, J. "Remote and edgy: New takes on old anthropological themes." HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory  vol. 4 no. 1 (June, 2014.): 361-381. [doi]  [abs]
  5. Allison, A; Piot, C. "Editors' note on "neoliberal futures"." Cultural Anthropology  vol. 29 no. 1 (February, 2014.): 3-7. [doi]
  6. Alison, A; Piot, C. "Editors' introduction: Open access." Cultural Anthropology  vol. 29 no. 2 (January, 2014.): 201-202. [doi]
  7. C. Piot. "Fin Des Temps Et Nouveaux Departs: Un Scheme De Ponzi Dans Le Lome Des Annees 2010." Politique Africaine  vol. 135 (October 2014.).
  8. C.D. Piot. "Entangled histories." HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory  vol. 4 no. 1 ( 2014.): 369-370.
  9. Allison, A; Piot, C. "Editors' note." Cultural Anthropology  vol. 28 no. 3 (August, 2013.): 369-371. [doi]
  10. Allison, A; Piot, C. "Editors' notes." Cultural Anthropology  vol. 27 no. 1 (February, 2012.): 1-2. [doi]
  11. Piot, C. "Pentecostal and Development Imaginaries in West Africa." Pentecostalism and Development: Churches, NGOs and Social Change in Africa. Edited by Freeman, D.  ( 2012.).
  12. Allison, A; Piot, C. "Untitled." CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY  vol. 27 no. 2 ( 2012.): 191-192. [doi]
  13. Allison, A; Piot, C. "New Editors' Greeting." Cultural Anthropology  vol. 26 no. 1 (February, 2011.): 1-5. [doi]
  14. Allison, A; Piot, C. "Untitled." CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY  vol. 26 no. 4 ( 2011.): 511-513. [doi]
  15. Allison, A; Piot, C. "INTRODUCTION." CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY  vol. 26 no. 2 ( 2011.): 157-157. [doi]
  16. Piot, C. "Border Practices." Hard Work, Hard Times: Ethnographies of Volatility and African Being-in-the-World. Edited by Buggenhagen, B; Jackson, S; Makhulu, A-M.  ( 2010.).
  17. Piot, C. "The 'Right' To Be Trafficked." Indiana Journal of Global Studies  vol. 18 no. 1 ( 2010.): 1-12.
  18. Piot, C; Amselle, JL. "Ethnicity: Western Africa." New Encyclopedia of Africa  vol. 2 ( 2007.): 342-344.
  19. Piot, C; Geschiere, P; Goheen, M. "Introduction: Marginal Gains Revisited." African Studies Review, Special Issue on Jane Guyer's Marginal Gains: Monetary Transactions in Atlantic Africa  vol. 50 no. 2 ( 2007.): 37-41. [doi]  [abs]
  20. Piot, C. "KC's World." Transforming Anthropology  vol. 15 no. 2 ( 2007.): 158-166. [repository], [doi]
  21. Piot, C. "Representing Africa in the Kasinga Asylum Case." Female Circumcision: Multicultural Perspectives. Edited by Abusharaf, R.  ( 2006.). (Reprinted in: Female Genital Cutting in the World: The Challenge of a Cross-cultural Encounter, eds. Y. Hernlund & B. Shell-Duncan)
  22. Piot, C. "Togolese Cartographies: Re-mapping Space in a post-Cold War City." Crisis and Creativity: Exploring the Wealth of the African Neighborhood. Edited by Konings, P; Foeken, D.  ( 2006.).
  23. Piot, C. "Jeux de frontières : La Loterie des Cartes Vertes au Togo." Politique Africaine  vol. 101 ( 2006.): 171-80.
  24. Piot, C. "Asylum and Culture: Comments on Khanna and Noll." Texas International Law Journal  vol. 41 no. 3 ( 2006.): 503-506.
  25. Piot, C. "Fractal Figurations: Homologies and Hierarchies inKabre Culture." On the Order of ’Chaos’: Social Anthropology and the Science of Chaos. Edited by Mosko, M; Damon, F.  ( 2005.).
  26. Piot, C. "An African Postcolony in the Age of Empire." Antropologi [Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society]  vol. 29 no. 1 ( 2004.): 20-27.
  27. Piot, C. "Heat on the Street: Video Violence in American Teen Culture." Journal of Postcolonial Studies  vol. 6 no. 3 ( 2003.): 351-365.
  28. Piot, C. "Des cosmopolites dans la brousse." Les Temps Modernes  vol. 57 no. 620-21 ( 2002.): 240-260.
  29. Piot, C. "Atlantic Aporias: Africa and Gilroy's Black Atlantic." South Atlantic Quarterly  vol. 100 no. 1 (January, 2001.): 155-170. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  30. Piot, C. "Of Hybridity, Modernity and their Malcontents: Reflections on John and Jean Comaroff’s "Of Revelation and Revolution"." Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Vol. 2  vol. 3 no. 1 ( 2001.): 112-118.
  31. Piot, C. "Réponse Aux Critiques." Politique Africaine  vol. 82 ( 2001.): 206-210. (Response to 3 reviews of Remotely Global)
  32. Piot, C. "Expectations of modernity myths and meanings of urban life on the Zambian Copperbelt.." ANTHROPOLOGICAL QUARTERLY  vol. 74 no. 2 ( 2001.): 89-90. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  33. Piot, C. "Editorial: "Of Revelation and Revolution"." Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies  vol. 3 no. 1 ( 2001.): 1-4.
  34. Piot, C. "The mask of anarchy: the destruction of Liberia and the religious dimension of an African civil war.." JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE  vol. 6 no. 4 ( 2000.): 745-746. [Gateway.cgi]
  35. Piot, C. "The modernity of witchcraft: Politics and the occult in postcolonial Africa.." AMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST  vol. 26 no. 1 ( 1999.): 247-248. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  36. Piot, C. "Perspectives on Africa: A reader in culture, history, and representation.." AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST. Edited by Roy Richard Grinker & Christopher Steiner.  vol. 100 no. 3 ( 1998.): 812-813. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  37. Piot, C. "Of slaves and the gift: Kabre sale of kin during the era of the slave trade." JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORY  vol. 37 no. 1 ( 1996.): 31-49. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  38. Piot, CD. "Secrecy, Ambiguity, and the Everyday in Kabre Culture." American Anthropologist  vol. 95 no. 2 (June, 1993.): 353-370. [doi]  [abs]
  39. Piot, C. "Wealth production, ritual consumption, and center/periphery relations in a West African regional system." American Ethnologist  vol. 19 no. 1 (February, 1992.): 34-52. [doi]
  40. Piot, C. "Of Persons and Things: Some Reflections on African Spheres of Exchange." Man  vol. 26 no. 3 (September, 1991.): 405-424. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  41. Tambiah, S. ""Comment" on "Bridewealth and Dowry Revisited: The position of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa and North India"." Current Anthropology  vol. 30 no. 4 ( 1989.): 430-431.
  42. Piot, C. "Fathers and Sons: Domestic Production, Conflict and Social Forms Among the Kabre." Research in Economic Anthropology  vol. 10 ( 1988.): 269-285.
  43. Geentz, C. "Local Knowledge: Further Essays in Interpretive Anthropology." Journal of Speech Quarterly  vol. 71 no. 3 ( 1985.): 390-392.

Edited Volumes

  1. C. Piot, editor. Doing Development in West Africa: A Primer For Undergraduates. Duke Press, under contract  ( 2014.).

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