Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt.

Friction : an ethnography of global connection / Anna Lowenhau pt Tsing. - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2005. - xiv, 321 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

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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Intercultural communication.
International economic relations.
International relations.
Ethnology.

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