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Crude Domination is an innovative and important book about a critical topic – oil. While there have been numerous works about petroleum from ‘experience-far’ perspectives, there have been relatively few that have turned the ‘experience-near’ ethnographic gaze of anthropology on the topic. Crude Domination does just this among more peoples and more places than any other volume. Its chapters investigate nuances of culture, politics and economics in Africa, Latin America, and Eurasia as they pertain to petroleum. They wrestle with the key questions vexing scholars and practitioners alike: problems of the economic blight of the resource curse, underdevelopment, democracy, violence and war. Additionally they address topics that may initially appear insignificant – such as child witches and lionmen, fighting for oil when there is no oil, reindeer nomadism, community TV – but which turn out on closer scrutiny to be vital for explaining conflict and transformation in petro-states. Based upon these rich, new worlds of information, the text formulates a novel, domination approach to the social analysis of oil. Four conjectures relate the prospect of conflict to oil. First, petroleum production integrates local, regional, national, and global levels of political and economic organization. Second, conflict is likely in these forms of integration, especially under conditions of oil scarcity. Third, oil production in the near future is subject to declining supply and increased demand. Fourth, this means that a looming crisis of oil threatens global integration with violence. Therefore, an urgent social science research priority is the investigation of the nexus between oil, integration, and conflict. Tackling these issues in three different world regions - Africa, Latin America, and Russia - this volume assesses the current state of knowledge concerning oil, integration, and conflict and formulates an anthropological research strategy to advance an understanding of oil and its vicissitudes. Offering a strategy for a global anthropology of oil, this volume strengthens the ability of social science to explain and design policy in a world experiencing a global oil crisis. -- Book Description from Website CONTENTS......Page 6 LIST OF FIGURES......Page 8 PART I - GENERALITIES......Page 10 CHAPTER 1 - THE CRAZY CURSE AND CRUDE DOMINATION......Page 12 CHAPTER 2 - OILING THE RACE TO THE BOTTOM......Page 39 PART II - AFRICA......Page 56 CHAPTER 3 - BLOOD OIL......Page 58 CHAPTER 4 - FIGHTING FOR OIL WHEN THERE IS NO OIL YET......Page 90 CHAPTER 5 - ELVES AND WITCHES......Page 116 CHAPTER 6 - CONSTITUTING DOMINATION/CONSTRUCTING MONSTERS......Page 141 PART III - LATIN AMERICA......Page 172 CHAPTER 7 - THE PEOPLE’S OIL......Page 174 CHAPTER 8 - ‘NOW THAT THE PETROLEUM IS OURS’......Page 199 CHAPTER 9 - FLASHPOINTS OF SOVEREIGNTY......Page 229 PART IV - POST-SOCIALIST RUSSIA......Page 250 CHAPTER 10 - OIL WITHOUT CONFLICT?......Page 252 CHAPTER 11 - ‘AGAINST ... DOMINATION’......Page 279 AFTERWORD - SUGGESTIONS FOR A SECOND READING......Page 307 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS......Page 312 INDEX......Page 316