Milk, modernity and the making of the human purifying the social / [electronic resource] :
Richie Nimmo.
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
- 1 online resource (xii, 207 p.)
- Culture, economy and the social .
- Culture, economy and the social. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-199) and index.
The anthropocentrism of 'culture' : a critique of humanist discourse -- Milk and modernity part I : commodities, networks and monopolies -- Culture, order and disease in late nineteenth-century British dairying -- Purifying milk : knowledge, sanitation and discipline -- Milk and modernity part II : measurement, rationalization and control -- Beyond 'culture' and 'nature' : towards a post-humanist knowledge.