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Title Indeterminacy : waste, value, and the imagination / edited by Catherine Alexander and Andrew Sanchez.

Publication Info. New York ; Oxford : Berghahn, 2019.

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Description 1 online resource (210 pages).
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Series WYSE series in social anthropology ; Volume 7
Wyse series in social anthropology ; Volume 7.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : the values of indeterminacy / Catherine Alexander and Andrew Sanchez -- Kept in suspense : the unsettling indeterminacy of U.S. landfills / Joshua O. Reno -- Experiments in living : the value of indeterminacy in trans art / Elena Gonzalez-Polledo -- The production of indeterminacy : on the unforeseeable futures of post-industrial excess / Felix Ringel -- Human waste in the land of abundance : two kinds of gypsy indeterminacy in Norway / Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Cathrine Moe Thorleiffson -- Waste people/value producers : ambiguity, indeterminacy and post-socialist Russian-speaking miners / Eeva Keskula -- Indeterminate classifications : being 'more than kin' in Kazakhstan / Catherine Alexander -- The politics of indeterminacy : boundary dislocations around waste, value and work in Subic Bay (Philippines) / Elisabeth Schober -- Epilogue : indeterminacy between worth and worthlessness / Niko Besnier and Susana Narotzky.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Social evolution.
Marginiality, Social.
Waste products -- Social aspects.
Determinism (Philosophy)
Civilization, Modern -- Social aspects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Alexander, Catherine, editor.
Sanchez, Andrew (Anthropologist), editor.
Other Form: Print version: Indeterminacy : waste, value, and the imagination. New York ; Oxford : Berghahn, 2019 210 pages Wyse series in social anthropology ; Volume 7. 9781789200096 (DLC) 2018038818
ISBN 9781789200096
9781789200102 (e-book)

 
    
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