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Frontiers of capital : ethnographic reflections on the new economy / edited by Melissa S. Fisher and Greg Downey.
Lippincott Library HC79.I55 F76 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Information technology--Social aspects.
- Information technology.
- Information society--Economic aspects.
- Information society.
- Capitalism--Social aspects.
- Capitalism.
- Culture--Economic aspects.
- Culture.
- Social change--Economic aspects.
- Social change.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 381 pages ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Ethnographic reflections on the new economy
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The Anthropology of Capital and the Frontiers of Ethnography / Greg Downey, Melissa S. Fisher 1
- I Circuits of Knowledge
- Fast Capitalism: Para-Ethnography and the Rise of the Symbolic Analyst / Douglas R. Holmes, George E. Marcus 33
- Trading on Numbers / Caitlin Zaloom 58
- Real Time: Unwinding Technocratic and Anthropological Knowledge / Annelise Riles 86
- The Information Economy in No-Holds-Barred Fighting / Greg Downey 108
- Intersecting Geographies? icts and Other Virtualities in Urban Africa / AbdouMaliq Simone 133
- II New Subjects, Novel Socialities
- Corporate Players, New Cosmopolitans, and Guanxi in Shanghai / Aihwa Ong 163
- Gentrification Generalized: From Local Anomaly to Urban "Regeneration" as Global Urban Strategy / Neil Smith 191
- Navigating Wall Street Women's Gendered Networks in the New Economy / Melissa S. Fisher 209
- Developing Community Software in a Commodity World / Siobhan O'Mahony 237
- Reflections on Youth, from the Past to the Postcolony / Jean Comaroff, John Comaroff 267
- Guerrilla Capitalism and Ghettocentric Cosmopolitanism on the French Urban Periphery / Paul A. Silverstein 282
- Afterword: Knowledge Practices and Subject Making at the Edge / Saskia Sassen 305.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [317]-355) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0822337274
- 0822337398
- 9780822337270
- 9780822337393
- 9780822337 270
- OCLC:
- 63808113
- Publisher Number:
- 9780822337270
- 9780822337393
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