{"product_id":"indigenous-knowledge-and-material-histories-the-example-of-rubber-hardback-9781009517089","title":"Indigenous Knowledge and Material Histories; The Example of Rubber (Hardback) 9781009517089","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eIndigenous Knowledge and Material Histories\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Example of Rubber\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDevelops a new version of the history of rubber and offers a critique of the standard narration on its invention.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJens Soentgen (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009517089, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 13 June 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e76 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 0.6 cm, 0.233 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis Element deals with stories told about substances and ways to analyse them through an Environmental Humanitie's perspective.  It then takes up rubber as an example and its many stories. It is shown that the common notions of rubber history, which assume that rubber only became a useful material through a miraculous operation called vulcanization, that is attributed to the US-American Charles Goodyear, are false. In contrast, it is shown that rubber and many important rubber products are inventions of Indigenous peoples of South America, made durable by a process that can be called organic vulcanization. It is with that invention, that the story of rubber starts. Without it, rubber would not exist, neither in the Americas nor elsewhere. Finally, it is shown that Indigenous rubber products also offer some ecological advantages over industrially manufactured ones.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 2. The rhetorical and literary tradition of stories of stuff\u003cbr\u003e 3. Research on the history of individual materials\u003cbr\u003e 4. Substances and materials\u003cbr\u003e 5. Histories\u003cbr\u003e 6. Rubber\u003cbr\u003e 7. Rubber histories and the representation of Indigenous peoples of South and Central America\u003cbr\u003e 8. Indigenous knowledge\u003cbr\u003e 9. Indigenous rubber products\u003cbr\u003e 10. Problems of untreated rubber\u003cbr\u003e 11. The place of Indigenous knowledge in the history of rubber\u003cbr\u003e 12. Rubber and Rubbish: tire dumps and microrubber.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary theory [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary theory\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20theory%20%5BDSA%5D%22\"\u003eDSA\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52415626576152,"sku":"9781009517089","price":52.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781009517089i.jpg?v=1784419617","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/indigenous-knowledge-and-material-histories-the-example-of-rubber-hardback-9781009517089","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}