Title: Space in the tropics: from convicts to rockets in French Guiana
Author: Redfield, Peter 1965-
Published: University of California Press, 2000
Subjects: Anthropology |
Cultural Anthropology |
Geography |
French Studies |
European Studies |
TechnologyPublisher's Description: Rockets roar into space - bearing roughly half the world's commercial satellites - from the same South American coastal rainforest where convicts once did time on infamous Devil's Island. What makes Space in the Tropics enthralling is anthropologist Peter Redfield's ability to draw from these two di . . .
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