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Friction : an ethnography of global connection / Anna Lowenhau pt Tsing.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2005.Description: xiv, 321 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0691120641 (alk.)
  • 069112065X (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.482  22
Contents:
Introduction -- PROSPERITY: "Better you had brought me a bomb, so I could blow this place up" -- Frontiers of capitalism -- "They communica te 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 islan d Borneo" -- A history of weediness -- FREEDOM: "A hair in the flour" - - Movements -- "Facilities and incentives" -- The forest of collaborati ons.
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Books - Open Access Books - Open Access MISR Library - Open Shelves MISR 303.482 TSI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 001141437

Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-312) and index.

Introduction -- PROSPERITY: "Better you had brought me a bomb, so I could blow this place up" -- Frontiers of capitalism -- "They communica te 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 islan d Borneo" -- A history of weediness -- FREEDOM: "A hair in the flour" - - Movements -- "Facilities and incentives" -- The forest of collaborati ons.

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