Anthropology 4400E Chapter Notes - Chapter online reading : Ethnography, Nauta, Peruvian Amazon
25 Feb 2018
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Cementing relationships - the materiality of roads and public spaces in provincial peru. Seeks to analyze and understand how concrete is implicated in the transformation of public space in provincial peru. Argues that there are limitations to concrete"s connective capacity in both the material and social domains. Concrete as homogenous and generic counterposed with the instability and heterogeneity of the terrains to which it is applied. She examines not only the material physicality of concrete but the forms that are built from it. Harvey rst drawn by the important role of concrete when looking at the aesthetics of state power. Concrete is a key material used for the demarcation and ordering of public space in contemporary peru. It is an element that brings together elements that otherwise refuse or fail to cohere. Harvey observed how concrete rst started in urban centres then made its way to transform rural towns into peri-urban spaces.
