Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780691120645 (0691120641)
Publish date: November 8th 2004
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Pages no: 344
Edition language: English
Actual rating: 3.5 starsI was probably one of the only people in my class to like reading this book, then again a lot of the other students in my class have not encountered a lot of scholars who are steeped in post-modernist thinking (like I have). I liked how Tsing looked at the idea of "Friction" ...
Reading a few chapters every few months is probably not the best way to approach politically dense ethnographic analysis. I was following the arguments for most of it, but I honestly cannot say whether or not Lowenhaupt Tsing's analysis of the philosophical interdependence of universal and local ma...
Reading a few chapters every few months is probably not the best way to approach politically dense ethnographic analysis. I was following the arguments for most of it, but I honestly cannot say whether or not Lowenhaupt Tsing's analysis of the philosophical interdependence of universal and local ma...
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