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Author Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt.

Title Friction : an ethnography of global connection / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Published Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2005]
©2005

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Description xiv, 321 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [297]-312) and index
Subject Intercultural communication.
International economic relations.
International relations.
Ethnology.
Globalization.
LC no. 2004043422
ISBN 0691120641 alkaline paper
069112065X paperback alkaline paper
Other Titles Ethnography of global connection