In the Meantime

Adeline Masquelier is Professor of Anthropology at Tulane University. She is author of Women and Islamic Revival in a West African Town (Indiana, 2009) and Fada: Boredom and Belonging in Niger (Chicago, 2019). She is a former executive editor of the Journal of Religion in Africa and past president of the Society for the Anthropology of Religion.

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments



Introduction: In the Meantime

Adeline Masquelier and Deborah Durham



Chapter 1. “Just Waiting”: Korean Chinese Mobility and Immobility in Transnational Migration

June Hee Kwon



Chapter 2. In the Meanplace: Traversing Boom and Bust in China’s High Growth/Ghost Town

Michael Alexander Ulfstjerne



Entretemps: “A Lot of Standing Around in the Dark”: Specters of Waiting in Paranormal Research

Misty L. Bastian



Chapter 3. Raising Consciousness in the Costa Rican Seasonal Low

Sabia McCoy-Torres



Chapter 4. Stranded in Decolonization: The Attritional Temporality of Sahrawi Activism in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara

Mark Drury



Entretemps: Machine-Made Time: Dialysis and the Complexities of Waiting and Planning

Janelle S. Taylor and Ann M. O’Hare



Chapter 5. Waiting for Thieves: Nighttime Capital and the Labor of Sitting in Niger

Adeline Masquelier



Chapter 6. Waiting to Heal in “Crip Time”: Temporalities of Chronic Skin Wounds amongst Gunshot Survivors in New Orleans

Daniella Santoro



Entretemps: Urgency, Boredom and Pandemic Mean/Time(s)

Martin Demant Frederiksen



Chapter 7. African Time,Waiting, and Deadlines in Botswana

Deborah Durham



Chapter 8. Waiting Out the Rush: On the Durability of Wealth in Kenya’s Coastal Sex Economies

George Paul Meiu



Afterword: In Slow Time

Thomas Hylland Eriksen