Nature Wars: Essays Around a Contested Concept

Roy Ellen

Published by Berghahn Books 2020

Nature Wars

Essays Around a Contested Concept

Roy Ellen

Volume 27 in the series Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789208986

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About this book

Organized around issues, debates and discussions concerning the various ways in which the concept of nature has been used, this book looks at how the term has been endlessly deconstructed and reclaimed, as reflected in anthropological, scientific, and similar writing over the last several decades. Made up of ten of Roy Ellen’s finest articles, this book looks back at his ideas about nature and includes a new introduction that contextualizes the arguments and takes them forward. Many of the chapters focus on research the author has conducted amongst the Nuaulu people of eastern Indonesia.

Author / Editor information

Roy Ellen is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Human Ecology at the University of Kent, where he initiated the programmes in environmental anthropology and ethnobotany, and founded the Centre for Biocultural Diversity. His recent books include On the Edge of the Banda Zone (2003), Nuaulu Religious Practices (2012), and Kinship, Population and Social Reproduction in the 'New Indonesia' (2018).

Reviews

“An important topic from a much-appreciated scholar”. • Carole Crumley, Swedish Agricultural University and Uppsala University

“This is a timely and important contribution that brings together in a single volume a collection of essays that represents the thinking of one of environmental anthropology’s most consistent and influential voices across an entire range of issues”. • Miguel Alexiades, University of Kent

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	xii
Note on Orthography Publicly Available Download PDF	xiv
Introduction. Nature Beyond the ‘Ontological Turn’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1. What Black Elk Left Unsaid Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	28
Chapter 2. Comparative Natures in Melanesia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	40
Chapter 3. Political Contingency, Historical Ecology and the Renegotiation of Nature Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
Chapter 4. Indigenous Environmental Knowledge and Its Transformations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	76
Chapter 5. From Ethno-science to Science Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
Chapter 6. Local and Scientific Understandings of Forest Diversity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
Chapter 7. Why Aren’t the Nuaulu Like the Matsigenka? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
Chapter 8. Roots, Shoots and Leaves: The Art of Weeding Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Chapter 9. Tools, Agency and the Category of ‘Living Things’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Chapter 10. Is There a Role for Ontologies in Understanding Plant Knowledge Systems? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	224
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	244
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277