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Anthropos and the Material (Hardcover)
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Anthropos and the Material (Hardcover)
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The destructive effects of modern industrial societies have shaped
the planet in such profound ways that many argue for the existence
of a new geological epoch called the Anthropocene. This claim
brings into relief a set of challenges that have deep implications
for how relations between the human, the material, and the
political affect contemporary social worlds. The contributors to
Anthropos and the Material examine these challenges by questioning
and complicating long-held understandings of the divide between
humans and things. They present ethnographic case studies from
across the globe, addressing myriad topics that range from labor,
economics, and colonialism to technology, culture, the environment,
agency, and diversity. In foregrounding the importance of
connecting natural and social histories, the instability and
intangibility of the material, and the ways in which the lively
encounters between the human and the nonhuman challenge conceptions
of liberal humanism, the contributors point to new understandings
of the capacities of people and things to act, transform, and adapt
to a changing world.
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