Fingerprint, bellwether, model event: Climate change as speculative anthropology

Anthropological Theory

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 308-328

  Whitington, Jerome ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Biosociality; climate change; earth; ecology; imagination; nature; speculative materialism; Thailand; uncertainty; viability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888209455     PISSN: 14634996     EISSN: 17412641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1463499613509992     Document Type: Article

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