Friction : an ethnography of global connection /
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing.
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2005.
- 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 communicate 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 island Borneo" -- A history of weediness -- FREEDOM: "A hair in the flour" -- Movements -- "Facilities and incentives" -- The forest of collaborations.
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Intercultural communication. International economic relations. International relations. Ethnology. Globalization.