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..., trans-Asian genetic network. The assembled genetic data have permitted researchers to claim that a single human wave out of Africa populated the Asian continent, thus challenging an earlier anthropological model of a two-prong entry. By stirring affects of genetic pride, storytelling participates...

... The preface presents readers with how scientists represent waves—primarily in water, but also in cosmology, biology, and social life—as processes that are simultaneously material and formal. It advances the frame of “wave clutter,” a maritime term for radar echoes from the surface of the sea...

... This short interstitial chapter examines the practice of Marshallese wave piloting, a tradition of ocean navigation that uses emplaced readings of sea wave diffraction patterns, mapped on “stick charts” and sensed from voyaging canoes, to travel around what Epeli Hau'ofa has called the “Sea...

... 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. bodysurfing...

... This short interstitial chapter examines renewable energy projects that seek to extract power from wave motion. Danish efforts are a particular focus. wave energy King Canute renewables ...

... This short interstitial chapter considers how waves have become figures in describing and predicting social change, from waves of opinion, immigration, and protest to waves of fascism and pandemic. immigration pandemic protest ...

... The chapter reports on wave science in the Southern Hemisphere, drawing not only from the first conference on the topic in Australia, but also on Zoom fieldwork with scientists on the Bay of Bengal, in Bangladesh, where legacies of colonialism mix with future-facing projects to refashion land...