{"product_id":"a-book-of-waves-9781478020417","title":"A Book of Waves","description":"In \u003ci\u003eA Book of Waves\u003c\/i\u003e Stefan Helmreich examines ocean waves as forms of media that carry ecological, geopolitical, and climatological news about our planet. Drawing on ethnographic work with oceanographers and coastal engineers in the Netherlands, the United States, Australia, Japan, and Bangladesh, Helmreich details how scientists at sea and in the lab apprehend waves' materiality through abstractions, seeking to capture in technical language these avatars of nature at once periodic and irreversible, wild and pacific, ephemeral and eternal. For researchers and their publics, the meanings of waves also reflect visions of the ocean as an environmental infrastructure fundamental to trade, travel, warfare, humanitarian rescue, recreation, and managing sea level rise. Interleaving ethnographic chapters with reflections on waves in mythology, surf culture, feminist theory, film, Indigenous Pacific activisms, Black Atlantic history, cosmology, and more, Helmreich demonstrates how waves mark out the wakes and breaks of social histories and futures.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStefan Helmreich is Professor of Anthropology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of \u003ci\u003eSounding the Limits of Life: Essays in the Anthropology of Biology and Beyond\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAlien Ocean: Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSilicon Second Nature: Culturing Artificial Life in a Digital World\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50717445390610,"sku":"9781478020417","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6f74170e-7e2e-4d58-9c36-008c2cbaadf2.jpg?v=1734617738","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-book-of-waves-9781478020417","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}