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Jerry C. Zee, "Continent in Dust: Experiments in a Chinese Weather System" (U California Press, 2022)

New Books in Anthropology

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The Anthropacine Thesis

The anthropacine thesis is offered as basically this way of making sense of the relationship between environmental and like, political time. I was really interested actually in how these people are constantly engaging in their sort of material interaction with these esands that they have to figure out how to deal with. And so one of things that was really exciting for me was that actually these people are regularly dealing with sand all the time.

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