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Indigenous Knowledge and Material Histories - Couverture souple

Soentgen, Jens

 
9781009442725: Indigenous Knowledge and Material Histories
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1009442724 ISBN 13 : 9781009442725
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2024

Synopsis

This Element deals with stories told about substances and ways to analyse them through an Environmental Humanitie's perspective. It then takes up rubber as an example and its many stories. It is shown that the common notions of rubber history, which assume that rubber only became a useful material through a miraculous operation called vulcanization, that is attributed to the US-American Charles Goodyear, are false. In contrast, it is shown that rubber and many important rubber products are inventions of Indigenous peoples of South America, made durable by a process that can be called organic vulcanization. It is with that invention, that the story of rubber starts. Without it, rubber would not exist, neither in the Americas nor elsewhere. Finally, it is shown that Indigenous rubber products also offer some ecological advantages over industrially manufactured ones.

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1009442724
ISBN 13 
9781009442725
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
76
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
Avery
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