UID:
almafu_9958062009402883
Format:
1 online resource (368 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-520-92342-1
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1-59734-908-9
Content:
Rockets roar into space--bearing roughly half the world's commercial satellites--from the same South American coastal rainforest where convicts once did time on infamous Devil's Island. What makes Space in the Tropics enthralling is anthropologist Peter Redfield's ability to draw from these two disparate European projects in French Guiana a gleaming web of ideas about the intersections of nature and culture.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Preliminaries; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1. Robinson Crusoe, Anthropology, and the Horizon of Technology; 2. History on the Wild Coast; 3. Botany Bay to Devil's Island; 4. The Natural Prison; 5. A Gate to the Heavens; 6. The Margin of the Future; 7. Tropics of Nature; 8. The Nature of Work; 9. The Imperfect Equator; Notes; Bibliography; Credits; Index
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Issued also in print.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-520-21984-8
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1525/9780520923423
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