"Karen Waltorp's intimate and sensitive exploration of the world as navigated by young Danish Muslim women through their smart phones is both theoretically innovative and ethnographically rich. Operating as window, mirror, screen, and relational device for anthropologist and research participants alike, the smart phone emerges as a rich and complex medium through which diasporic and ethnographic imaginaries are made real. This is digital anthropology at its best." -- Emma Tarlo, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK "Original, well written, persuasive. Karen Waltorp fluently moves between scales-the person, the apartment, the neighborhood, the nation, and international ties-and among disciplines, to analyze the spaces, relationships, and actions that young Muslim women in Denmark establish through their phones." -- Laura Marks, Simon Fraser University, Canada "This is a stunning and powerful book that, through a series of innovative research methods, creates a beautiful and nuanced ethnography full of intimacy and insight - a future classic in the anthropology of media." -- Christopher Wright, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK "'Why Muslim Women and Smartphones: Mirror Images' offers an ethnographically rich, methodology innovative and brilliant contribution to the study of contemporary social life. It shows how the smartphone has become a key witness to much of what life offers-from births to deaths; from the ordinary to extraordinary, from birth to death-and much else besides.

In doing it builds an intimate portrait of women's relations, hopes, fears and futures and is likely to become an important reference point that has relevance across disciplines." -- Andrew Irving, Professor of Anthropology, University of Manchester, UK.