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• Author/Creator:Helmreich, Stefan, 1966- author.
  
• Title:A book of waves / Stefan Helmreich.
  
• ISBN:1478024534
  9781478024538
  9781478020417
  1478020415
  9781478019947
  1478019948
  
• Publication:Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.
  
• Physical Description:1 online resource (xix, 411 pages) : illustrations, maps
  
• Links:Online book
  

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• Summary:"In A Book of Waves Stefan Helmreich examines ocean waves as forms of media that carry ecological, geopolitical, and climatological news about our planet. Drawing on ethnographic work with oceanographers and coastal engineers in the Netherlands, the United States, Australia, Japan, and Bangladesh, Helmreich details how scientists at sea and in the lab apprehend waves' materiality through abstractions, seeking to capture in technical language these avatars of nature at once periodic and irreversible, wild and pacific, ephemeral and eternal. For researchers and their publics, the meanings of waves also reflect visions of the ocean as an environmental infrastructure fundamental to trade, travel, warfare, humanitarian rescue, recreation, and managing sea level rise. Interleaving ethnographic chapters with reflections on waves in mythology, surf culture, feminist theory, film, Indigenous Pacific activisms, Black Atlantic history, cosmology, and more, Helmreich demonstrates how waves mark out the wakes and breaks of social histories and futures"--
  
• Variant and related titles:e-Duke books scholarly collection 2023. OCLC KB.
  
• Other formats:Print version: Helmreich, Stefan, 1966- Book of waves. Durham : Duke University Press, 2023
  
• Format:Book
• Series:The Lewis Henry Morgan lectures
  Lewis Henry Morgan lectures.
  
• BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references and index.
  
• Contents:From the waterwolf to the sand motor : domesticating waves in the Netherlands -- Flipping the ship : oriented knowledge, media, and waves in the field, Scripps Institution of Oceanography -- Waves to order and disorder : making and breaking scale models inside and outside the lab, from Oregon to Japan -- World wide waves, in silico : computer memory, ocean memory, and version control in the global data stack -- Wave theory, southern theory : disorienting planetary oceanic futures, Indian Ocean.
  
• Subjects:Ocean and civilization.
  Ocean waves--Climatic factors.
  Sea level--Social aspects.
  Ocean--Philosophy.
  human ecology.
  Human ecology
  Ocean and civilization