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A wheel turns because of its encounter with the surface of the road; spinning in the air it goes nowhere. Rubbing two sticks together produces heat and light; one stick alone is just a stick. In both cases, it is friction that produces movement, action, effect. Challenging the widespread view that globalization invariably signifies a "clash" of cultures, anthropologist Anna Tsing here develops friction in its place as a metaphor for the diverse and conflicting social interactions that make up our contemporary world.

She focuses on one particular "zone of awkward engagement"--the rainforests of Indonesia--where in the 1980s and the 1990s capitalist interests increasingly reshaped the landscape not so much through corporate design as through awkward chains of legal and illegal entrepreneurs that wrested the land from previous claimants, creating resources for distant markets. In response, environmental movements arose to defend the rainforests and the communities of people who live in them. Not confined to a village, a province, or a nation, the social drama of the Indonesian rainforest includes local and national environmentalists, international science, North American investors, advocates for Brazilian rubber tappers, UN funding agencies, mountaineers, village elders, and urban students, among others--all combining in unpredictable, messy misunderstandings, but misunderstandings that sometimes work out.

Providing a portfolio of methods to study global interconnections, Tsing shows how curious and creative cultural differences are in the grip of worldly encounter, and how much is overlooked in contemporary theories of the global.

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January 1, 2005
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Aristo

Beautiful, eye-opening, public-minded anthropology

Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2007

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I was surprised to see no review of this book, so I had to write one. It has many interesting facets, but at its core is a vivid and sometimes heart-breaking portrayal of the true face of "globalization" - not the shining abstraction of Thomas Friedman's dreams but a capricious force that scrapes over landscapes, natural environments, and the societies that live in them and often leaves them devastated in the name of progress.

I rarely use the word beautiful to describe an ethnography, but this is one such case.I really think this book deserves a wider public outside anthropology; Tsing's insightful observations on the sad fate of Kalimantan should be a lesson to all those who think unfettered free markets and the global economy are the route to salvation.

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Learning journey

Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2021

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Thank you for sharing insightful stories. This has opened my perspective to a new research method of doing ethnography. I hope I can adopt the method for my research as well.

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R. McKee

A new view of lookng at the Global Community

Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2010

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Excellent author. College students in traditional age bracket found it difficult reading because it has some heady thought lines and she writes from a different perspective than many anthropologists. Suggest reading this interesting case study on Indonesia's native people on the former island of Borneo, now Kalimantan Indonesia, and their cultural, economic, and social struggles as the outside world invaded their forrest homeland to mine it for natural resources. Government corruption, abusive soldiers, student activists, and international environmental organizations all are included in the storyline.

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Elijah Maletz

I read this book over a year ago in a ...

Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2015

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I read this book over a year ago in a cultural anthropology class, but still remember it as one of the most interesting and fresh reads of the semester. Although it is fairly difficult to grasp the concepts and models that Tsing uses in the book, once the pieces start to connect it gets really exciting. If you start and want to stop, press on-it will be worth it!

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Samantha Cave

but the book came as described and in good condition. Definitely only would read this if it ...

Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2015

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Not a very interesting read, but the book came as described and in good condition. Definitely only would read this if it was a requirement for class; I'm even interested in environmental anthropology and her writing style was hard for me to choke down.

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MAG

It really provides a good overview of how we are globally connected

Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2017

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Discovered this book while taking an Anthropology course. It really provides a good overview of how we are globally connected. It is a bit dense in understanding.

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P. Timmer

Slow start, but when the ball gets rolling…

Reviewed in Canada on May 25, 2022

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I find that Tsing’s preface and intro are longer than they need to be and are the sections that run the highest risk of being perceived as metaphysical or filled with jargon. However, I found that once Tsing actually began to get into the nitty-gritty of things, I quickly became sucked in and finished this book with a strange but rewarding feeling of satisfaction. I have found her notion of friction to be relevant time and time again in the books that I have read since then, as well as in my daily life.

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Grossartiges Buch

Reviewed in Germany on April 29, 2023

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Für alle, die sich für die Verbindung lokal, regional und global interessieren. Toll geschrieben.

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