Milk, Modernity and the Making of the Human : Purifying the Social.

  • Nimmo, Richie.
Date:
2010
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Description

Presents a story of the development of the British milk trade and explores how the domain of 'the social' is constituted within practices and relations, which transcend the human world.

Publication/Creation

Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2010.

Physical description

1 online resource (222 pages).

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Contents

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Modernity, humanity and nonhumans; 1 The anthropocentrism of 'culture': A critique of humanist discourse; 2 Milk and modernity Part I: Commodities, networks and monopolies; 3 Culture, order and disease in late nineteenth-century British dairying; 4 Purifying milk: Knowledge, sanitation and discipline; 5 Milk and modernity Part II: Measurement, rationalization and control; 6 Beyond 'culture' and 'nature': Towards a post-humanist knowledge; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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    Ordered for Wellcome Collection on 8 March 2023

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  • 1282576488
  • 9781282576483