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Overheating - An Anthropology of Accelerated Change (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,662
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Overheating - An Anthropology of Accelerated Change (Hardcover): Thomas Hylland Eriksen

Overheating - An Anthropology of Accelerated Change (Hardcover)

Thomas Hylland Eriksen

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The world is overheated. Too full and too fast; uneven and unequal. It is the age of the Anthropocene, of humanity's indelible mark upon the planet. In short, it is globalisation - but not as we know it. In this groundbreaking book, Thomas Hylland Eriksen breathes new life into the discussion around global modernity, bringing an anthropologist's approach to bear on the three interrelated crises of environment, economy and identity. He argues that although these crises are global in scope, they are perceived and responded to locally, and that contradictions abound between the standardising forces of information-age global capitalism and the socially embedded nature of people and local practices. Carefully synthesising the ethnographic and comparative methods of anthropology with macrosocial and historical material, Overheating offers an innovative new perspective on issues including energy use, urbanisation, deprivation, human (im)mobility, and the spread of interconnected, wireless information technology.

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Imprint: Pluto Press
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: June 2016
Authors: Thomas Hylland Eriksen
Dimensions: 215 x 135 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Library binding
Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 978-0-7453-3639-8
Categories: Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Globalization
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Development studies
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General
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LSN: 0-7453-3639-6
Barcode: 9780745336398

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