Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection

2004-11-28articleProject Muse (Johns Hopkins University)3,333 citationsclosed

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Abstract

Preface ix Introduction 1 PART I: Prosperity Better you had brought me a bomb, so I could blow this place up 21 Chapter 1: Frontiers of Capitalism 27 They communicate only in sign language 51 Chapter 2: The Economy of Appearances 55 PART II: Knowledge Let a new Asia and a new Africa be born 81 Chapter 3: Natural Universals and the Global Scale 88 Dark rays 113 Chapter 4: Nature Loving 121 This earth, this island Borneo 155 Chapter 5: History of Weediness 171 PART III: Freedom A hair in the flour 205 Chapter 6: Movements 213 Facilities and incentives 239 Chapter 7: The Forest of Collaborations 245 Coda 269 Notes 273 References 297 Index 313

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