Comments on: Summer reading circle: Friction III http://savageminds.org/2006/06/19/summer-reading-circle-friction-iii/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog Thu, 24 May 2012 01:47:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: itsalljustaride http://savageminds.org/2006/06/19/summer-reading-circle-friction-iii/comment-page-1/#comment-10953 itsalljustaride Fri, 23 Jun 2006 16:14:08 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2006/06/19/summer-reading-circle-friction-iii/#comment-10953 Well. After having finished the book (I know, I know, this is only about chapter 3, sue me :)) it was redeemed a bit with the last chapter, but I still don't think she connects the dots as well as I'd like. Theodore Bestor's article "Supply-side Sushi" is a multi-sited ethnography that I could actually follow the thread in, and I think he did much more in his 30 page article than Tsing has in her book, but then there is a good possibility that I just wasn't following well on my end and another read might clear things up. The comparison may not be a fair one either, since Tsing seems to be trying to elucidate a more etheral idea than just commodity chains. Well. After having finished the book (I know, I know, this is only about chapter 3, sue me :)) it was redeemed a bit with the last chapter, but I still don’t think she connects the dots as well as I’d like. Theodore Bestor’s article “Supply-side Sushi” is a multi-sited ethnography that I could actually follow the thread in, and I think he did much more in his 30 page article than Tsing has in her book, but then there is a good possibility that I just wasn’t following well on my end and another read might clear things up. The comparison may not be a fair one either, since Tsing seems to be trying to elucidate a more etheral idea than just commodity chains.

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