{"title":"The dredger","authors":"A. Carse","doi":"10.1080/02757206.2022.2066096","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The dredging of navigable waterways is a critical but often overlooked precondition for global trade. Focusing on the figure of “the dredger”—which can refer to a machine that excavates underwater sediment or a person who does that work—this short article links the modern maritime industry, colonial expansion, and terracentric anthropological thought. I argue that the figure of the dredger is useful for understanding the collective geological agency of humanity.","PeriodicalId":46201,"journal":{"name":"History and Anthropology","volume":"22 Suppl 2 1","pages":"208 - 213"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6000,"publicationDate":"2022-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"History and Anthropology","FirstCategoryId":"98","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2022.2066096","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"ANTHROPOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT The dredging of navigable waterways is a critical but often overlooked precondition for global trade. Focusing on the figure of “the dredger”—which can refer to a machine that excavates underwater sediment or a person who does that work—this short article links the modern maritime industry, colonial expansion, and terracentric anthropological thought. I argue that the figure of the dredger is useful for understanding the collective geological agency of humanity.
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History and Anthropology continues to address the intersection of history and social sciences, focusing on the interchange between anthropologically-informed history, historically-informed anthropology and the history of ethnographic and anthropological representation. It is now widely perceived that the formerly dominant ahistorical perspectives within anthropology severely restricted interpretation and analysis. Much recent work has therefore been concerned with social change and colonial history and the traditional problems such as symbolism, have been rethought in historical terms. History and Anthropology publishes articles which develop these concerns, and is particularly interested in linking new substantive analyses with critical perspectives on anthropological discourse.
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