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The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures
A Book of Waves
By
Stefan Helmreich
Stefan Helmreich
Stefan Helmreich is Professor of Anthropology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of
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Duke University Press
Copyright:
This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved.
ISBN electronic:
978-1-4780-2453-8
Publication date:
2023
This a short interstitial chapter reports on the author's entry into the thirty-sixth Annual World Bodysurfing Championship, held in Oceanside, California, in 2012. It argues that surfing techniques, contoured by gender, race, and class, shape what surfers take waves to be.
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