Waste Away : Working and Living with a North American Landfill / Joshua O. Reno.

Though we are the most wasteful people in the history of the world, very few of us know what becomes of our waste. In Waste Away, Joshua O. Reno reveals how North Americans have been shaped by their preferred means of disposal: sanitary landfill. Based on the author's fieldwork as a common labo...

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Online Access: Full Text (via De Gruyter)
Main Author: Reno, Joshua O. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2015]
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Interlude: A Note on Drawing and Ethnography
  • 1. Leaky Bodies
  • 2. Smells Like Money
  • 3. Going Shopping
  • 4. Wasteland Historicity
  • 5. Ghostly and Fleshly Lines
  • Conclusions
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.