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Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt.

Friction : An Ethnography of Global Connection / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing. - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2005. - xiv, 321 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

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.

ISBN: 0691120641 (alk. paper) 069112065X (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2004043422

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Intercultural communication.
International economic relations.
International relations.
Ethnology.
Globalization.

LC Class. No.: GN345.6 / .T75 2005

Dewey Class. No.: 303.482 TSI