Friction : an ethnography of global connection - Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt (Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2005)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-312) and index.
Keywords: Intercultural communication; International economic relations; International relations; Ethnology