The Anthropology of Resource Extraction (Routledge Stud - D'Angelo, Lorenzo - Paperback / sof -14/01/2022

This book offers an overview of the key debates in the burgeoning anthropological literature on resource extraction.Resources play a crucial role in the contemporary economy and society, are required in the production of a vast range of consumer products and are at the core of geopolitical strategies and environmental concerns for the future of humanity.Scholars have widely debated the economic and sociological aspects of resource management in our societies, offering interesting and useful abstractions.However, anthropologists offer different and fresh perspectives - sometimes complementary and at other times alternative to these abstractions - based on field researches conducted in close contact with those actors (individuals as well as groups and institutions) that manipulate, anticipate, fight for, or resist the extractive processes in many creative ways.Thus, while addressing questions such as: "What characterizes the anthropology of resource extraction?", "What topics in the cont