Overheating: An Anthropology of Accelerated Change

by Thomas Hylland Eriksen

Book Overview

We live in a time of global crisis--or, more appropriately, crises: overlapping, interlocking global problems that are inextricably tied to modernity. Overheating offers a groundbreaking new way of looking at the problems of the Anthropocene, exploring crises of the environment, economy, and identity through an anthropological lens. Thomas Hylland Eriksen argues that while each of these crises is global in scope, they are nonetheless perceived...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745336345
• ISBN13: 9780745336343
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"