Milk, Modernity and the Making of the Human : Purifying the Social.

Presents a story of the development of the British milk trade and explores how the domain of 'the social' is constituted within practices and relations, which transcend the human world.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nimmo, Richie
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2010.
Colección:CRESC.
Temas:
Milk trade > Social aspects > Great Britain.
Dairying > Social aspects > Great Britain.
Human-animal relationships.
Humanism.
Lait > Commerce > Aspect social > Grande-Bretagne.
Industrie laitière > Aspect social > Grande-Bretagne.
Relations homme-animal.
Humanisme.
humanism.
Human-animal relationships
Humanism
Great Britain
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Modernity, humanity and nonhumans; 1 The anthropocentrism of 'culture': A critique of humanist discourse; 2 Milk and modernity Part I: Commodities, networks and monopolies; 3 Culture, order and disease in late nineteenth-century British dairying; 4 Purifying milk: Knowledge, sanitation and discipline; 5 Milk and modernity Part II: Measurement, rationalization and control; 6 Beyond 'culture' and 'nature': Towards a post-humanist knowledge; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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