Part I: Computers in an Alien Environment -- Introduction -- Chapter One The Symbolic and the Social: Computer Use in Two African Settings -- Chapter Two Computer-Related Successes and Excuses: The Discourse of Confrontation -- Chapter Three New Technicians of the Sacred: Technology, Belief Systems, and Social Control -- Part II: New Technologies, Work Organization, and the Administrative Revolution -- Chapter Four The Last Train of the Twentieth Century: The Computer Revolution in Ivory Coast -- Chapter Five Display, Domination, and Mastery: Computers in the Kenyan Setting -- Chapter Six Socializing Workers into the New Mechanical Solidarity -- Part III: Simulating Postmodernity -- Chapter Seven Indigenizing the Computer: Social and Interpretive Practices Surrounding New Technologies -- Chapter Eight The Computer Contract: A Sociosemiotic Analysis of Computer Adoption -- Chapter Nine Terminal Signs -- Notes -- Glossary -- References -- Index.