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OverviewThe destructive effects of modern industrial societies have shaped the planet in such profound ways that many argue for the existence of a new geological epoch called the Anthropocene. This claim brings into relief a set of challenges that have deep implications for how relations between the human, the material, and the political affect contemporary social worlds. The contributors to Anthropos and the Material examine these challenges by questioning and complicating long-held understandings of the divide between humans and things. They present ethnographic case studies from across the globe, addressing myriad topics that range from labor, economics, and colonialism to technology, culture, the environment, agency, and diversity. In foregrounding the importance of connecting natural and social histories, the instability and intangibility of the material, and the ways in which the lively encounters between the human and the nonhuman challenge conceptions of liberal humanism, the contributors point to new understandings of the capacities of people and things to act, transform, and adapt to a changing world. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Penny Harvey , Christian Krohn-Hansen , Knut G. NustadPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Weight: 0.363kg ISBN: 9781478002864ISBN 10: 1478002867 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 07 June 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Acknowledgments vii Introduction / Penny Harvey, Christian Krohn-Hansen, and Knut G. Nustad 1 Part I: Materializing Structures 1. Uncommoning Nature: Stories from the Anthropo-Not-Seen / Marisol de la Cadena 35 2. Contemporary Capitalism and Dominican New Yorkers' Livery-Cab Bases: A Taxi Story / Christian Krohn-Hansen 59 3. Anthropos and Pragmata: On the Shape of Things to Come / Ingjerd Hoëm 81 Part II: Material Potential 4. Tabu and Bitcoin: Fluctuating (Im)materiality in Two Nonstate Media of Exchange / Keir Martin 103 5. Sperm, Eggs, and Wombs: The Fabrication of Vital Matters through Legislative Acts / Marit Melhuus 122 6. Lithic Vitality: Human Entanglement with Nonorganic Matter / Penny Harvey 143 7. Traces of Pasts and Imaginings of Futures in St Lucia, South Africa / Knut G. Nustad 161 Part III: Material Uncertainties and Heterogeneous Knowledge Practices 8. Matters that Matter: Air and Atmosphere as Material Politics in South Africa / Rune Flikke 179 9. The Ghost at the Banquet: Ceremony, Community, and Industrial Growth in West Norway / Marianne Elisabeth Lien and John Law 196 10. When the Things We Study Respond to Each Other: Tools for Unpacking ""the Material"" / Anna Tsing 221 Contributors 245 Index 249 "ReviewsThis book underscores that the Anthropocene poses challenges that far exceed disciplinary or methodological boundaries, just as they exceed the bounds of the anthropos or the material. The contributors take us far in imagining analytical frameworks, sensibilities, and political possibilities that are 'more than human' at a time when anthropocentrism is confronting the consequences of its hubris. -- Nidhi Subramanyam * Geographical Review * Author InformationPenny Harvey is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester and Professor II in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo. Christian Krohn-Hansen is Professor in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo. Knut G. Nustad is Professor in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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