Nature/Culture/Seawater

This essay considers seawater as a substance and symbol in anthropological and social theory. Seawater has occupied an ambiguous place with respect to anthropological categories of nature and culture. Seawater as nature appears as potentiality of form and uncontainable flux; it moves faster than cul...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Helmreich, Stefan
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Anthropology Program
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61766
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0859-5881