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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807867103321

Titolo

Culture and waste : the creation and destruction of value / / edited by Gay Hawkins and Stephen Muecke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., , 2003

©2003

ISBN

0-7425-7604-3

0-7425-1982-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (172 p.)

Disciplina

306

Soggetti

Economic anthropology

Value

Material culture

Refuse and refuse disposal - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.'