Culture and Waste : the Creation and Destruction of Value.

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The international contributors to this collection ask us to pause and consider the complex ways in which value is created and destroyed. Their diverse approaches of ethics, philosophy, cultural studies, and politics are at the forefront of a new field of 'ecohumanites.'

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hawkins, Gay
Otros Autores: Muecke, Stephen
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002.
Temas:
Economic anthropology.
Value.
Material culture.
Refuse and refuse disposal > Social aspects.
Anthropologie économique.
Valeur.
Culture matérielle.
Déchets > Élimination > Aspect social.
value (economic concept)
material culture (discipline)
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Economic anthropology
Material culture
Refuse and refuse disposal > Social aspects
Value
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Cultural Economies of Waste Gay Hawkins and Stephen Muecke; 1 Out of Australia David M. Halperin; 2 Miasma Michael Taussig; 3 Invidious Distinction: Waste, Difference, and Classy Stuff John Frow; 4 Down the Drain: Shit and the Politics of Disturbance Gay Hawkins; 5 Decolonizing the Discourse of Environmental Knowledge in Settler Societies Deborah Bird Rose; 6 Psychie Waste: Freud, Fechner, and the Principle of Constancy Suzanne Raut.
  • 7 Hollywood's Pacific junk: The Wreckage of Colonial History in Six Days and Seven Nights and Rapa Nui Jonathan Gil Harris and Anna Neill8 Trash as Archive, Trash as Enlightenment Patricia Yaeger; 9 Devastation Stephen Muecke; Bibliography; Index; About the Contributors.

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