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Friction : An Ethnography of Global Connection / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing.

By: Publication details: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2005.Description: xiv, 321 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0691120641 (alk. paper)
  • 069112065X (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.482 TSI 22
LOC classification:
  • GN345.6 .T75 2005
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction; PROSPERITY: "Better you had brought me a bomb, so I could blow this place up" Frontiers of capitalism; "They communicate only in sign language" The economy of appearances; KNOWLEDGE: "Let a new Asia and a new Africa be born" Natural universals and the global scale; "Dark rays" Nature loving; "This earth, this island Borneo" A history of weediness; FREEDOM: "A hair in the flour" Movements; "Facilities and incentives" The forest of collaborations.
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Introduction;
PROSPERITY: "Better you had brought me a bomb, so I could blow this place up"
Frontiers of capitalism;
"They communicate only in sign language"
The economy of appearances;
KNOWLEDGE: "Let a new Asia and a new Africa be born"
Natural universals and the global scale;
"Dark rays"
Nature loving;
"This earth, this island Borneo"
A history of weediness;
FREEDOM: "A hair in the flour"
Movements;
"Facilities and incentives"
The forest of collaborations.