Roads and Anthropology

Roads and Anthropology
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 190
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ISBN-10 : 9781317621607
ISBN-13 : 1317621603
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Book Synopsis Roads and Anthropology by : Dimitris Dalakoglou

Download or read book Roads and Anthropology written by Dimitris Dalakoglou and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roads and the powerful sense of mobility that they promise carry us back and forth between the sweeping narratives of globalisation, and the specific, tangible materialities of particular times and places. Indeed, despite the fact that roads might, by comparison with the sparkling agility of virtual technologies, appear to be grounded in twentieth century industrial political economy they could arguably be taken as the paradigmatic material infrastructure of the twenty-first century, supporting both the information society (in the ever increasing circulation of commoditized goods and labour), and the extractive economies of developing countries which the production and reproduction of such goods and labour depends. Roads and Anthropology is the first collection of road ethnographies, edited by two pioneers in the anthropological explorations of infrastructures, the essays published in this book aim to pave the way for that rising field of anthropological research. This book was published as a special issue of Mobilities.


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