Culture and Waste : the Creation and Destruction of Value.
Hawkins, Gay.
Culture and Waste : the Creation and Destruction of Value. - Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002. - 1 online resource (172 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-136) and index.
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.
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.'
English.
9780742576049 (electronic bk.) 0742576043 (electronic bk.) 1299790615 (ebk) 9781299790612 (ebk) 0742519813 9780742519817 0742519821 (Trade Paper) 9780742519824
9780742519824
510312 MIL
2002010604
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.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
GN448.2 .C847 2002
306
Culture and Waste : the Creation and Destruction of Value. - Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002. - 1 online resource (172 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-136) and index.
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.
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.'
English.
9780742576049 (electronic bk.) 0742576043 (electronic bk.) 1299790615 (ebk) 9781299790612 (ebk) 0742519813 9780742519817 0742519821 (Trade Paper) 9780742519824
9780742519824
510312 MIL
2002010604
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.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
GN448.2 .C847 2002
306