Anthropos and the Material - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1478002867 ISBN 13 : 9781478002864

Editeur : Duke University Press, 2019

Synopsis

The 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Penny 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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Duke University Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1478002867
• ISBN 13: 9781478002864
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Éditeur: Harvey Penny, Krohn-Hansen Christian, Nustad Knut G.
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