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Crude Domination - An Anthropology of Oil (Hardcover)
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Crude Domination - An Anthropology of Oil (Hardcover)
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Crude Domination is an innovative and important book about a
critical topic - oil. While there have been numerous works about
petroleum from 'experience-far' perspectives, there have been
relatively few that have turned the 'experience-near' ethnographic
gaze of anthropology on the topic. Crude Domination does just this
among more peoples and more places than any other volume. Its
chapters investigate nuances of culture, politics and economics in
Africa, Latin America, and Eurasia as they pertain to petroleum.
They wrestle with the key questions vexing scholars and
practitioners alike: problems of the economic blight of the
resource curse, underdevelopment, democracy, violence and war.
Additionally they address topics that may initially appear
insignificant - such as child witches and lionmen, fighting for oil
when there is no oil, reindeer nomadism, community TV - but which
turn out on closer scrutiny to be vital for explaining conflict and
transformation in petro-states. Based upon these rich, new worlds
of information, the text formulates a novel, domination approach to
the social analysis of oil.
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