TY - BOOK AU - Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt. TI - Friction: an ethnography of global connection SN - 0691120641 (alk.) U1 - 303.482 22 PY - 2005/// CY - Princeton, N.J. PB - Princeton University Press KW - Intercultural communication KW - International economic relations KW - International relations KW - Ethnology N1 - 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 ER -