Culture and waste
Subtitle: the creation and destruction of value
By: edited by Gay Hawkins, Stephen Muecke
Contributors: Hawkins, Gay; Muecke, Stephen, 1951-
Publisher: Rowman & LIttlefield; Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 143
Subjects: Economic anthropology; Value; Material culture; Waste disposal -- Social aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-136) and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Cultural economies of waste / Gay Hawkins, Stephen Meucke; title: Out of Australia / David M. Halperin; title: Miasma / Michael Taussig; title: Invidious distinction: waste, difference, and classy stuff / John Frow; title: Down the drain: shit and the politics of disturbance / Gay Hawkins; title: Decolonizing the discourse of environmental knowledge in settler societies / Deborah Bird Rose; title: Psychic waste: Freud, Fechner, and the principle of constancy / Suzanne Raitt; title: Hollywood's Pacific junk: the wreckage of colonial history in Six days and seven nights and Rapa Nui / Jonathan Gil Harris, Anna Neill; title: Trash as archive, trash as enlightenment / Patricia Yaeger; title: Devastation / Stephen Muecke