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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.  [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.)

Papers Published

  1. Hamaguchi, N; Hino, H; Piot, C; Yin, J. "Multi-dimensional informality and heterogeneity of microenterprises in urban Africa." Japanese Economic Review 76:4 (October, 2025): 891-925. [doi]  [abs]
  2. Piot, C. "Jane’s generativity." Hau Journal of Ethnographic Theory 15:2 (September, 2025): 539-541. [doi]
  3. Allison, A; Boyer, D; Piot, C. "FINANCING OPEN ACCESS: Introducing Friends of Cultural Anthropology." Cultural Anthropology 31:2 (May, 2016): 159-161. [doi]
  4. Allison, A; Piot, C. "Editing the times." Cultural Anthropology 30:4 (November, 2015): 525-530. [doi]
  5. Allison, A; Piot, C. "Editors' farewell." Cultural Anthropology 29:4 (November, 2014): 599-601. [doi]
  6. 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 4:1 (June, 2014): 361-381. [doi]  [abs]
  7. Allison, A; Piot, C. "Editors' note on "neoliberal futures"." Cultural Anthropology 29:1 (February, 2014): 3-7. [doi]
  8. Alison, A; Piot, C. "Editors' introduction: Open access." Cultural Anthropology 29:2 (January, 2014): 201-202. [doi]
  9. C. Piot. "Fin Des Temps Et Nouveaux Departs: Un Scheme De Ponzi Dans Le Lome Des Annees 2010." Politique Africaine 135 (October 2014).
  10. C.D. Piot. "Entangled histories." HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 4:1 (2014): 369-370.
  11. Allison, A; Piot, C. "Editors' note." Cultural Anthropology 28:3 (August, 2013): 369-371. [doi]
  12. Allison, A; Piot, C. "Editors' notes." Cultural Anthropology 27:1 (February, 2012): 1-2. [doi]
  13. Piot, C. "Pentecostal and Development Imaginaries in West Africa." Pentecostalism and Development: Churches, NGOs and Social Change in Africa  (2012).
  14. Allison, A; Piot, C. "Untitled." CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY 27:2 (2012): 191-192. [doi]
  15. Allison, A; Piot, C. "New Editors' Greeting." Cultural Anthropology 26:1 (February, 2011): 1-5. [doi]
  16. Allison, A; Piot, C. "Untitled." CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY 26:4 (2011): 511-513. [doi]
  17. Allison, A; Piot, C. "INTRODUCTION." CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY 26:2 (2011): 157-157. [doi]
  18. Piot, C. "Border Practices." Hard Work, Hard Times: Ethnographies of Volatility and African Being-in-the-World  (2010).
  19. Piot, C. "The 'Right' To Be Trafficked." Indiana Journal of Global Studies 18:1 (2010): 1-12.
  20. Piot, C; Amselle, JL. "Ethnicity: Western Africa." New Encyclopedia of Africa 2 (2007): 342-344.
  21. 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 50:2 (2007): 37-41. [doi]  [abs]
  22. Piot, C. "KC's World." Transforming Anthropology 15:2 (2007): 158-166. [repository], [doi]
  23. Piot, C. "Togolese Cartographies: Re-mapping Space in a post-Cold War City." Crisis and Creativity: Exploring the Wealth of the African Neighborhood  (2006).
  24. Piot, C. "Representing Africa in the Kasinga Asylum Case."  Reprinted in: Female Genital Cutting in the World: The Challenge of a Cross-cultural Encounter, eds. Y. Hernlund & B. Shell-Duncan Female Circumcision: Multicultural Perspectives  (2006).
  25. Piot, C. "Jeux de frontières : La Loterie des Cartes Vertes au Togo." Politique Africaine 101 (2006): 171-80.
  26. Piot, C. "Asylum and Culture: Comments on Khanna and Noll." Texas International Law Journal 41:3 (2006): 503-506.
  27. Piot, C. "Fractal Figurations: Homologies and Hierarchies inKabre Culture." On the Order of ’Chaos’: Social Anthropology and the Science of Chaos  (2005).
  28. Piot, C. "An African Postcolony in the Age of Empire." Antropologi [Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society] 29:1 (2004): 20-27.
  29. Piot, C. "Heat on the Street: Video Violence in American Teen Culture." Journal of Postcolonial Studies 6:3 (2003): 351-365.
  30. Piot, C. "Des cosmopolites dans la brousse." Les Temps Modernes 57:620-21 (2002): 240-260.
  31. Piot, C. "Atlantic Aporias: Africa and Gilroy's Black Atlantic." South Atlantic Quarterly 100:1 (January, 2001): 155-170. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  32. 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 3:1 (2001): 112-118.
  33. Piot, C. "Réponse Aux Critiques."  Response to 3 reviews of Remotely Global Politique Africaine 82 (2001): 206-210.
  34. Piot, C. "Expectations of modernity myths and meanings of urban life on the Zambian Copperbelt.." ANTHROPOLOGICAL QUARTERLY 74:2 (2001): 89-90. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  35. Piot, C. "Editorial: "Of Revelation and Revolution"." Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 3:1 (2001): 1-4.
  36. 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 6:4 (2000): 745-746. [Gateway.cgi]
  37. Piot, C. "The modernity of witchcraft: Politics and the occult in postcolonial Africa.." AMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST 26:1 (1999): 247-248. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  38. Piot, C. "Perspectives on Africa: A reader in culture, history, and representation.." AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST 100:3 (1998): 812-813. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  39. Piot, C. "Of slaves and the gift: Kabre sale of kin during the era of the slave trade." JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORY 37:1 (1996): 31-49. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  40. Piot, CD. "Secrecy, Ambiguity, and the Everyday in Kabre Culture." American Anthropologist 95:2 (June, 1993): 353-370. [doi]  [abs]
  41. Piot, C. "Wealth production, ritual consumption, and center/periphery relations in a West African regional system." American Ethnologist 19:1 (February, 1992): 34-52. [doi]
  42. Piot, C. "Of Persons and Things: Some Reflections on African Spheres of Exchange." Man 26:3 (September, 1991): 405-424. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  43. Tambiah, S. ""Comment" on "Bridewealth and Dowry Revisited: The position of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa and North India"." Current Anthropology 30:4 (1989): 430-431.
  44. Piot, C. "Fathers and Sons: Domestic Production, Conflict and Social Forms Among the Kabre." Research in Economic Anthropology 10 (1988): 269-285.
  45. Geentz, C. "Local Knowledge: Further Essays in Interpretive Anthropology." Journal of Speech Quarterly 71:3 (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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