Sareeta Amrute

Encoding Race, Encoding Class

Indian IT Workers in Berlin

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Produktbeschreibung

Sareeta Amrute is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Washington. ¿

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 158mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 519g
• ISBN-13: 9780822361176
• ISBN-10: 0822361175
• Artikelnr.: 43894151

Autorenporträt

Sareeta Amrute is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Washington.  

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction: Cognitive Work, Cognitive Bodies  1
Part I. Encoding Race
1. Imagining the Indian IT Body  29
2. The Postracial Office  54
3. Proprietary Freedoms in an IT Office  86
Part II. Encoding Class
4. The Stroke of Midnight and the Spirit of Entrepreneurship: A History of
the Computer in India  111
5. Computers Are Very Stupid Cooks: Reinventing Leisure as a Politics of
Pleasure  137
6. The Traveling Diaper Bag: Gifts and Jokes as Materializing Immaterial
Labor  164
A Speculative Conclusion: Secrets and Lives  185
Notes  203
Bibliography  231
Index  253