Commodification : Things, Agency, and Identities : (The Social Life of Things Revisited) 9783825888046, 3825888045

"The empirically rich and analytically provocative contributions to this volume focus on Africa and on the process

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From prehistoric stone tools to machines to computers, things have traveled a long road along with human beings. Changin

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Foregrounds underrepresented agents (women, nature and the nonhuman) in and through the poetry of Theocritus Provides

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This book explains IoT technology, its potential applications, the security and privacy aspects, the key necessities lik

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From the wastes of the sea to the shadows of our own cities, we are not alone. But what happens where the human world to

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One of the new forms of prose fiction that emerged in the eighteenth century was the first-person narrative told by thin

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A challenging study offering a new perspective on classical Japanese poems and how they interact with and are part of ma

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Shortlisted for the Design History Society Scholarship Prize 2001-2002 What do things mean? What does the life of everyd

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Ants, ghosts, cultures, thunderstorms, stock markets, robots, computers: this is just a partial list of the sentient thi

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