a ISBN 0-691-12064-1

a ISBN 0-691-12065-X

a Original cataloging agency NEU GrandLibrary

a Classification number GN345.6

b Item number .T75 2005

a Dewey Classification 303.48/2

a Personal name Tsing Anna Lowenhaupt

h Medium BOOK

a Title Friction :

b Remainder of title an ethnography of global connection /

c Statement of responsibility, etc Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing.

a Place of publication, distribution, etc Princeton, N.J. :

b Name of publisher, distributor, etc Princeton University Press,

c Date of publication, distribution, etc 2005.

a Extent xiv, 321 p. :

b Other physical details ill. ;

c Dimensions 25 cm.

a Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-312) and index.

a Formatted contents note Introduction -- PROSPERITY: "Better you had brought me a bomb, so I could blow this place up" -- Frontiers of capitalism -- "They communicate only in sign language" -- The economy of appearances -- KNOWLEDGE: "Let a new Asia and a new Africa be born" -- Natural universals and the global scale -- "Dark rays" -- Nature loving -- "This earth, this island Borneo" -- A history of weediness -- FREEDOM: "A hair in the flour" -- Movements -- "Facilities and incentives" -- The forest of collaborations.

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Intercultural communication

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element International economic relations

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element International relations

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Ethnology

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Globalization