Jens Soentgen

Indigenous Knowledge and Material Histories

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"This Element deals with stories told about substances and ways to analyse them through an Environmental Humanities perspective. It then takes up rubber as an example and its many stories"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 76
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9781009517089
• ISBN-10: 1009517082
• Artikelnr.: 70288002

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. The rhetorical and literary tradition of stories of stuff
3. Research on the history of individual materials
4. Substances and materials
5. Histories
6. Rubber
7. Rubber histories and the representation of Indigenous peoples of South and Central America
8. Indigenous knowledge
9. Indigenous rubber products
10. Problems of untreated rubber
11. The place of Indigenous knowledge in the history of rubber
12. Rubber and Rubbish: tire dumps and microrubber.