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Charles D. Piot

Charles D. Piot

Professor of Cultural Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology
charles.piot@duke.edu
Box 90091, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Durham, NC 27708-0091
210 Friedl Building, Durham, NC 27708

Scholarly Works - Journal articles

Multi-dimensional informality and heterogeneity of microenterprises in urban Africa

Journal article Japanese Economic Review · October 1, 2025 Drawing on a multidimensional framework, we develop the Composite Informality Index (CII) as a scalar measure capturing the degree of firm informality. CII outperforms both individual aspects of informality and binary formal–informal classifications in ass ... Full text Cite

Jane’s generativity

Journal article Hau Journal of Ethnographic Theory · September 1, 2025 Full text Cite

FINANCING OPEN ACCESS: Introducing Friends of Cultural Anthropology

Journal article Cultural Anthropology · May 1, 2016 Full text Cite

Editing the times

Journal article Cultural Anthropology · November 1, 2015 Full text Cite

Editors' farewell

Journal article Cultural Anthropology · November 1, 2014 Full text Cite

Remote and edgy: New takes on old anthropological themes

Journal article Hau Journal of Ethnographic Theory · June 1, 2014 Eight anthropologists working in various parts of Asia, Africa, and Latin America reflect on an essay by Edwin Ardener on the concept of remote areas recently reprinted in Hau (Volume 2, Issue 1). These reflections all show that the idea of the remote can ... Full text Cite

Editors' note on "neoliberal futures"

Journal article Cultural Anthropology · February 1, 2014 Full text Cite

Editors' introduction: Open access

Journal article Cultural Anthropology · January 1, 2014 Full text Cite

Editors' note

Journal article Cultural Anthropology · August 1, 2013 Full text Cite

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Journal article CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY · May 2012 Full text Link to item Cite

Editors' notes

Journal article Cultural Anthropology · February 1, 2012 Full text Cite

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Journal article CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY · November 2011 Full text Link to item Cite

INTRODUCTION

Journal article CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY · May 2011 Full text Link to item Cite

New Editors' Greeting

Journal article Cultural Anthropology · February 1, 2011 Full text Cite

The 'Right' To Be Trafficked

Journal article Indiana Journal of Global Studies · 2010 Cite

KC's World

Journal article Transforming Anthropology · 2007 Open Access Cite

Introduction: Marginal Gains Revisited

Journal article African Studies Review, Special Issue on Jane Guyer's Marginal Gains: Monetary Transactions in Atlantic Africa · 2007 Cite

Jeux de frontières : La Loterie des Cartes Vertes au Togo

Journal article Politique Africaine · 2006 Cite

Asylum and Culture: Comments on Khanna and Noll

Journal article Texas International Law Journal · 2006 Cite

An African Postcolony in the Age of Empire

Journal article Antropologi [Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society] · 2004 Cite

Heat on the Street: Video Violence in American Teen Culture

Journal article Journal of Postcolonial Studies · 2003 Featured Publication Cite

Des cosmopolites dans la brousse

Journal article Les Temps Modernes · 2002 Featured Publication Cite

Réponse Aux Critiques

Journal article Politique Africaine · 2001 Cite

Of Hybridity, Modernity and their Malcontents: Reflections on John and Jean Comaroff’s "Of Revelation and Revolution"

Journal article Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Vol. 2 · 2001 Cite

Editorial: "Of Revelation and Revolution"

Journal article Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies · 2001 Cite

Atlantic Aporias: Africa and Gilroy's Black Atlantic

Journal article South Atlantic Quarterly · January 1, 2001 Featured Publication Full text Cite

The mask of anarchy: the destruction of Liberia and the religious dimension of an African civil war.

Journal article JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE · December 2000 Link to item Cite

Secrecy, Ambiguity, and the Everyday in Kabre Culture

Journal article American Anthropologist · June 1993 Secrecy, the intentional concealing of information, is very much a part of everyday life and discourse among the Kabre of northern Togo (West Africa). This article proposes an interpretation of Kabre everyday secrecy that relies on indigenous under ... Full text Cite

Fathers and Sons: Domestic Production, Conflict and Social Forms Among the Kabre

Journal article Research in Economic Anthropology · 1988 Cite

Local Knowledge: Further Essays in Interpretive Anthropology

Journal article Journal of Speech Quarterly · 1985 Cite