Anthropos and the material

by Harvey, Penelope Krohn-Hansen, Christian Nustad, Knut G.

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Presenting ethnographic case studies from across the globe, the contributors to Anthropos and the Material question and complicate long-held understandings of the divide between humans and things by examining encounters between the human and the nonhuman in numerous social, cultural, technological, and geographical contexts.

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Full title :Anthropos and the material / Penny Harvey, Christian Krohn-Hansen, and Knut G. Nustad, eds.

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Publication Date:2019.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Duke University Press
Place of Publication:Durham
Language:eng
Publication Date:2019.

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Description:1 online resource

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ISBN:9781478003311, 1478003316
oclc:on1073036886
LC Classification:GF75
Dewey Decimal:304.2

Uncommoning nature : stories from the anthropo-not-seen / Marisol de la Cadena -- Contemporary capitalism and Dominican New Yorkers' livery-cab bases : a taxi story / Christian Krohn-Hansen -- Anthropos and pragmata : on the shape of things to come / Ingjerd Hoëm -- Tabu and Bitcoin : fluctuating (im)materiality in two nonstate media of exchange / Keir Martin -- Sperm, eggs, and wombs : the fabrication of vital matters through legislative acts / Marit Melhuus -- Lithic vitality : human entanglement with nonorganic matter / Penny Harvey -- Traces of pasts and imaginings of futures in St Lucia, South Africa / Knut G. Nustad -- Matters that matter : wind and weather in South Africa / Rune Flikke -- The ghost at the banquet : ceremony, community, and industrial growth in west Norway / John Law and Marianne Lien -- When the things we study respond to each other : tools for unpacking "the material" / Anna Tsing.

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Anthropocène Anthropologie -- Aspect de l'environnem… Anthropology -- Environmental aspects Écologie humaine -- Aspect politique Environmentalism -- Political aspects Environmentalism -- Social aspects Environnementalisme -- Aspect politique Environnementalisme -- Aspect social Ethnologie -- Aspect politique Ethnology -- Political aspects Geology, Stratigraphic Geology, Stratigraphic -- Anthropocene Holocène Homme -- Influence sur la nature Human ecology -- Political aspects Nature -- Effect of human beings on SCIENCE -- Life Sciences SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural