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• Joint winner of Senior Book Prize of the American Ethnological Association 2005 (United States)

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Friction is an original, nuanced, and elegant work of ethnography and a significant contribution to the areas of globalization; environment and natural resource wars; the politics of indigenous peoples, NGOs, and development; and the sociology of expert versus local knowledge. -- Michael Goldman, American Journal of Sociology By providing generous anecdotes and personal reflections amid more complex, insightful political commentary and social theory, [Tsing] achieves a writing style that is both pleasurable and informative. -- Laura L B Graham, Environment & Planning

Friction is an original, nuanced, and elegant work of ethnography and a significant contribution to the areas of globalization; environment and natural resource wars; the politics of indigenous peoples, NGOs, and development; and the sociology of expert versus local knowledge. -- Michael Goldman American Journal of Sociology By providing generous anecdotes and personal reflections amid more complex, insightful political commentary and social theory, [Tsing] achieves a writing style that is both pleasurable and informative. -- Laura L B Graham Environment & Planning

Friction is an original, nuanced, and elegant work of ethnography and a significant contribution to the areas of globalization; environment and natural resource wars; the politics of indigenous peoples, NGOs, and development; and the sociology of expert versus local knowledge. -- Michael Goldman, American Journal of Sociology By providing generous anecdotes and personal reflections amid more complex, insightful political commentary and social theory, [Tsing] achieves a writing style that is both pleasurable and informative. -- Laura L B Graham, Environment & Planning

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Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing is professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her books include The Mushroom at the End of the World and In the Realm of the Diamond Queen (both Princeton).

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