Title

Login

Join

Book's by Jens Soentgen

Covers

List

Indigenous Knowledge and Material Histories

The Example of Rubber

By: Jens Soentgen

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Indigenous Knowledge and Material Histories

The Example of Rubber

By: Jens Soentgen

This Element deals with stories told about substances and ways to analyse them through an Environmental Humanitie's perspective. It then takes up rubber as an example and its many stories. It is shown that the common notions of rubber history, which assume that rubber only became a useful material through a miraculous operation called vulcanization, that is attributed to the US-American Charles Goodyear, are false. In contrast, it is shown that rubber and many important rubber products are inventions of Indigenous peoples of South America, made durable by a process that can be called organic vulcanization. It is with that invention, that the story of rubber starts. Without it, rubber would not exist, neither in the Americas nor elsewhere. Finally, it is shown that Indigenous rubber products also offer some ecological advantages over industrially manufactured ones.

Average ratings

N/A

5

0%

4

0%

3

0%

2

0%

1

0%

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

139

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1009442740

ISBN 13

9781009442749

Indigenous Knowledge and Material Histories

The Example of Rubber

By: Jens Soentgen

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Indigenous Knowledge and Material Histories

The Example of Rubber

By: Jens Soentgen

This Element deals with stories told about substances and ways to analyse them through an Environmental Humanitie's perspective. It then takes up rubber as an example and its many stories. It is shown that the common notions of rubber history, which assume that rubber only became a useful material through a miraculous operation called vulcanization, that is attributed to the US-American Charles Goodyear, are false. In contrast, it is shown that rubber and many important rubber products are inventions of Indigenous peoples of South America, made durable by a process that can be called organic vulcanization. It is with that invention, that the story of rubber starts. Without it, rubber would not exist, neither in the Americas nor elsewhere. Finally, it is shown that Indigenous rubber products also offer some ecological advantages over industrially manufactured ones.

Average ratings

N/A

5

0%

4

0%

3

0%

2

0%

1

0%

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

139

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1009442740

ISBN 13

9781009442749