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Author Hendriks, Thomas, author.

Title Rainforest capitalism : power and masculinity in a Congolese timber concession / Thomas Hendriks
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 294 pages) : illustrations
Contents Thinking with loggers -- Awkward beginning -- Forest work -- Remembering labor -- Sharing the company -- Out of here -- A darker shade of white -- Cannibals and corned beef -- Men and trees -- Women and chainsaws -- Capitalism and ecstasis
Summary "Thomas Hendriks examines the rowdy environment of industrial timber production in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to theorize the social, racial, and gender power dynamics of capitalist extraction."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Lumbermen -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Social life and customs
Logging -- Congo (Democratic Republic)
Lumber camps -- Congo (Democratic Republic)
Lumber camps -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Management
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
HISTORY / Africa / Central.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Logging
Lumber camps
Congo (Democratic Republic)
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021018234
ISBN 1478022477
9781478022473