Frontiers of capital ethnographic reflections on the new economy / [electronic resource] : Ethnographic reflections on the new economy edited by Melissa S. Fisher and Greg Downey. - Durham : Duke University Press, 2006. - vi, 381 p. - e-Duke books scholarly collection. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-355) and index.

Introduction: The Anthropology of Capital and the Frontiers of Ethnography / Greg Downey and Melissa S. Fisher -- I. Circuits of Knowledge. Fast Capitalism: Para-Ethnography and the Rise of the Symbolic Analyst / Douglas R. Holmes and George E. Marcus. Trading on Numbers / Caitlin Zaloom. Real Time: Unwinding Technocratic and Anthropological Knowledge/ Annelise Riles. The Information Economy in No-Holds-Barred Fighting / Greg Downey. Intersecting Geographies? ICTs and Other Virtualities in Urban Africa/ AbdouMaliq Simone -- II. New Subjects, Novel Socialities. Corporate Players, New Cosmopolitans, and Guanxi in Shanghai / Aihwa Ong. Gentrification Generalized: From Local Anomaly to Urban "Regeneration" as Global Urban Strategy / Neil Smith. Navigating Wall Street Women's Gendered Networks in the New Economy / Melissa S. Fisher. Developing Community Software in a Commodity World / Siobhn O'Mahony. Reflections on Youth, from the Past to the Postcolony / Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff. Guerrilla Capitalism and Ghettocentric Cosmopolitanism on the French Urban Periphery / Paul A. Silverstein -- Afterword: Knowledge Practices and Subject Making at the Edge: Local Moments and Electronic Domains / Saskia Sassen.

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Information technology--Social aspects.
Information society--Economic aspects.
Capitalism--Social aspects.
Culture--Economic aspects.
Social change--Economic aspects.


Electronic books.

HC79.I55 / F76 2006