Indigenous Knowledge and Material Histories : The Example of Rubber

Name: Indigenous Knowledge and Material Histories
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781009517089
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ISBN: 9781009517089

by Jens Soentgen

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Format Hardback

Book Series Elements in Environmental Humanities

ISBN-10 1009517082

ISBN-13 9781009517089

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jun 13th, 2024

Print length 76 Pages

Weight 233 grams

Dimensions 22.90 x 15.20 x 0.60 cms

Product Classification: Literary theory

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This 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.

This 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.

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