TY - GEN AU - Tsing Anna Lowenhaupt TI - Friction : : an ethnography of global connection / SN - 0691120641 AV - GN345.6 U1 - 303.48/2 PY - 2005/// CY - Princeton, N.J. : PB - Princeton University Press KW - Intercultural communication KW - International economic relations KW - International relations KW - Ethnology KW - Globalization N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-312) and index; 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 ER -