E-resources
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Carse, Ashley
History and anthropology, 03/2022, Volume: 33, Issue: 2Journal Article
The dredging of navigable waterways is a critical but often overlooked precondition for global trade. Focusing on the figure of "the dredger"-which can refer to a machine that excavates underwater sediment or a person who does that work-this short article links the modern maritime industry, colonial expansion, and terracentric anthropological thought. I argue that the figure of the dredger is useful for understanding the collective geological agency of humanity.
