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Annual Review of Anthropology

Volume 44, 2015

Oil and Anthropology*

Abstract

In addition to its established interest in the relationships among states, corporations, and communities near extraction sites, recent anthropological and allied interdisciplinary interest in oil extends to encompass pipeline infrastructures, financial and commodity markets, reserve estimates and calculations, international legal battles, and the creation of geological, environmental, and petrochemical knowledge. This review suggests that, across these issues and around the world, two analytic issues have emerged as topics of special interest: temporality and materiality. The former includes the ways in which the oil complex shapes senses of cyclical boom and bust, of acceleration and deceleration, and of past, present, and future. The latter includes the ways in which humans encounter, transform, and represent various qualities and properties of oil as a substance.

Keyword(s): corporations, energy, extraction, materiality, oil, temporality
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