ISBN:
9780415702751
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (508 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Anthropology
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Anthropology Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Anthropology and Nature
DDC:
301.01
Keywords:
Anthropology - Philosophy
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
On the basis of empirical studies, this book explores nature as an integral part of the social worlds conventionally studied by anthropologists. The book may be read as a form of scholarly ""edgework,"" resisting institutional divisions and conceptual routines in the interest of exploring new modalities of anthropological knowledge making. The present interest in the natural world is partly a response to large-scale natural disasters and global climate change, and to a keen sense that nature matters matters to society at many levels, ranging from the microbiological and genetic fra
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Preface and Acknowledgements; 1 Naturee: Anthropology on the Edge; 2 More-than-Human Sociality: A Call for Critical Description; 3 Qualifying Coastal Nature: Bio-conservation Projects in South East India; 4 Engaged World-Making: Movements of Sand, Sea, and People at Two Pacific Islands; 5 Political Ecology in a More-than-Human World: Rethinking 'Natural' Hazards; 6 Islands of Nature: Insular Objects and Frozen Spirits in Northern Mongolia
Description / Table of Contents:
7 Establishing a 'Third Space'? Anthropology and the Potentials of Transcending a Great Divide8 The Inevitability of Nature as a Rhetorical Resource; 9 Divide and Rule: Nature and Society in a Global Forest Programme; 10 Life at the Border: Nim Chimpsky et al.; 11 Human Activity between Nature and Society: The Negotiation of Infertility in China; 12 Broken Cosmologies: Climate, Water, and State in the Peruvian Andes; 13 Of Maps and Men: Making Places and People in the Arctic; 14 Designing Environments for Life; Contributors; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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