Crude domination: an anthropology of oil

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Title:	Crude domination: an anthropology of oil
Editors:	Behrends, Andrea Reyna, Stephen P. Schlee, Günther
Year:	2011
Issue:	9
Pages:	325
Language:	English
Series:	Dislocations
City of publisher:	New York
Publisher:	Berghahn Books
ISBN:	085745255X; 9780857452559; 0857452568; 9780857452566
Geographic terms:	Africa Chad Congo (Republic of) Nigeria Sudan Latin America Russian Federation
Subjects:	petroleum petroleum industry conflict
Abstract:	Voume 9 in a series dealing with the dislocations caused by globalization is devoted to the disruption caused in oil-producing countries by this genie in a bottle. The introductory section contains two essays: The crazy curse and crude domination: towards an anthropolgy of oil by Stephen P. Reyna and Andrea Behrends and Oiling the race to the bottom by Jonathan Friedman. The book's 3 sections deal with Africa, Latin America and post-socialist Russia. The essays dealing specifically with Africa are: Blood oil: the anatomy of a petro-insurgency in the Niger Delta, Nigeria by Michael Watts; Fighting for oil when there is no oil yet: the Darfur-Chad border (Chad, Sudan) by Andrea Behrends; Elves and witches: oil kleptocrats and the destruction of social order in Congo-Brazzaville by Kajsa Ekholm Friedman; and Constituting domination/constructing monsters: imperialism, cultural desire and anti-Beowulfs in the Chadian petro-state (the role of fear and lionmen/sorcerer rumours in a developing petro-state) by Stephen P. Reyna. [ASC Leiden abstract]