Space in the tropics : from convicts to rockets in French Guiana

Space in the tropics : from convicts to rockets in French Guiana / Peter Redfield.

Rockets roar into space--bearing roughly half the world's commercial satellites--from the same South American coastal rainforest where convicts once did time on infamous Devil's Island. What makes Space in the Tropics enthralling is anthropologist Peter Redfield's ability to draw from...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Redfield, Peter, 1965-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2000.
Subjects:
Centre spatial guyanais.
Centre spatial guyanais
Human geography > French Guiana > History.
Penal colonies > French Guiana > Devil's Island.
Human ecology.
Economic development > Environmental aspects.
human ecology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
Economic development > Environmental aspects
Human ecology
Human geography
Penal colonies
French Guiana
French Guiana > Devil's Island
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Robinson Crusoe, anthropology, and the horizon of technology
  • History and the wild coast
  • Botany Bay to Devils's Island
  • The natural prison
  • A gate to the heavens
  • The margin of the future
  • Tropics of nature
  • The nature of work
  • The imperfect equator.

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