Dear ANTHROPOLOGY-MATTERS Subscribers,
We would like to announce a new publication from Duke University Press, which we hope will be of interest.
Anthropos and the Material
Edited by Penny Harvey, Christian Krohn-Hansen & Knut G. Nustad
https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/anthropos-and-the-material
The destructive effects of modern industrial societies have shaped the planet in such profound ways that many argue for the existence of a new geological epoch called the Anthropocene. This claim brings into relief a set of challenges that have deep implications for how relations between the human, the material, and the political affect contemporary social worlds. The contributors to Anthropos and the Material examine these challenges by questioning and complicating long-held understandings of the divide between humans and things. They present ethnographic case studies from across the globe, addressing myriad topics that range from labor, economics, and colonialism to technology, culture, the environment, agency, and diversity. In foregrounding the importance of connecting natural and social histories, the instability and intangibility of the material, and the ways in which the lively encounters between the human and the nonhuman challenge conceptions of liberal humanism, the contributors point to new understandings of the capacities of people and things to act, transform, and adapt to a changing world.
Penny Harvey is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester and Professor II in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo.
Christian Krohn-Hansen is Professor in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo.
Knut G. Nustad is Professor in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo.
With all best wishes,
Combined Academic Publishers
Duke University Press | June 2019 | 272pp | 9781478002864 | PB | £22.99*
*Price subject to change.
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