Jens Soentgen (Augsburg University)

Indigenous Knowledge and Material Histories

The Example of Rubber

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This Element deals with stories told about substances and ways to analyse them through an Environmental Humanitie's perspective. It then takes up rubber as an example and its many stories.

Produktdetails

• Elements in Environmental Humanities
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 76
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 151mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 130g
• ISBN-13: 9781009442725
• ISBN-10: 1009442724
• Artikelnr.: 70290860

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. The rhetorical and literary tradition of stories of stuff
3. Research on the history of individual materials
4. Substances and materials
5. Histories
6. Rubber
7. Rubber histories and the representation of Indigenous peoples of South and Central America
8. Indigenous knowledge
9. Indigenous rubber products
10. Problems of untreated rubber
11. The place of Indigenous knowledge in the history of rubber
12. Rubber and Rubbish: tire dumps and microrubber.