ISBN:
9781478020417
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9781478019947
Language:
English
Pages:
xix, 411 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Diagramme Karten
Series Statement:
The Lewis Henry Morgan lectures
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Helmreich, Stefan, 1966 - A book of waves
Keywords:
Human ecology
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Ocean and civilization
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Ocean waves Climatic factors
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Sea level Social aspects
;
Ocean Philosophy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
;
Meereswelle
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Kulturanthropologie
Abstract:
"In A Book of Waves Stefan Helmreich examines ocean waves as forms of media that carry ecological, geopolitical, and climatological news about our planet. Drawing on ethnographic work with oceanographers and coastal engineers in the Netherlands, the United States, Australia, Japan, and Bangladesh, Helmreich details how scientists at sea and in the lab apprehend waves' materiality through abstractions, seeking to capture in technical language these avatars of nature at once periodic and irreversible, wild and pacific, ephemeral and eternal. For researchers and their publics, the meanings of waves also reflect visions of the ocean as an environmental infrastructure fundamental to trade, travel, warfare, humanitarian rescue, recreation, and managing sea level rise. Interleaving ethnographic chapters with reflections on waves in mythology, surf culture, feminist theory, film, Indigenous Pacific activisms, Black Atlantic history, cosmology, and more, Helmreich demonstrates how waves mark out the wakes and breaks of social histories and futures"--
Description / Table of Contents:
From the waterwolf to the sand motor : domesticating waves in the Netherlands -- Flipping the ship : oriented knowledge, media, and waves in the field, Scripps Institution of Oceanography -- Waves to order and disorder : making and breaking scale models inside and outside the lab, from Oregon to Japan -- World wide waves, in silico : computer memory, ocean memory, and version control in the global data stack -- Wave theory, southern theory : disorienting planetary oceanic futures, Indian Ocean.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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