ABSTRACT
The women’s relations to people and places, possible futures, even questions of life and death are all aggregated in their smartphones. Blaagaarden is a social housing area in Noerrebro, Copenhagen, where 65.5 percent of the inhabitants have a migratory history. The title “Why Muslim Women and Smartphones: Mirror Images” alludes to a double gaze and a double focus. According to Roy Wagner, historical anthropology mirrored the ideology of the late colonial and supraethnic empires of Britain, France, Central Europe, and others, and Orientalism has been described as, in essence, a (distorted) mirror image of the Occident. In learning by doing, or by interacting and adjusting to materials, machines, and models, experimentalists progressively discern what is relevant and what is not in a given experiment.
