ISBN:
0-415-13215-0
,
978-0-415-13215-2
,
0-415-13216-9 /Pbk.
,
978-0-415-13216-9 /Pbk.
Language:
English
Pages:
ix, 310 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karten
Series Statement:
European Association of Social Anthropologists Series
Keywords:
Kulturökologie Ökologie
;
Natur
;
Humanökologie
;
Anthropologie, soziale
;
Beziehungen Mensch-Umwelt
;
Beziehungen Natur-Kultur
;
Tagungsbericht
Abstract:
The contributors to this book focus on the relationship between nature and society from a variety of theoretical and ethnographic perspectives. Their work draws upon recent developments in social theory, biology, ethnobiology, epistemology, sociology of science, and a wide array of ethnographic case studies -- from Amazonia, the Solomon Islands, Malaysia, the Mollucan Islands, rural comunities from Japan and north-west Europe, urban Greece, and laboratories of molecular biology and high-energy physics. The discussion is divided into three parts, emphasising the problems posed by the nature-culture dualism, some misguided attempts to respond to these problems, and potential avenues out of the current dilemmas of ecological discourse. (Verlagsangabe)
Description / Table of Contents:
List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Editors' preface -- 1 Introduction / Philipp Descola and Gísli Pálsson -- Part I Contested domains and boundaries -- 2 The optimal forager and economic man / Tim Ingold -- 3 Ecology as semiotics: outlines of a contextualist paradigm for human ecology / Alf Hornborg -- 4 Human-environmental relations: orientalism, paternalism and communalism / Gísli Pálsson -- 5 Constructing natures: symbolic ecology and social practice / Philippe Descola -- 6 The cognitive geometry of nature: a contextual approach / Roy F. Ellen -- Part II Sociologies of nature -- 7 Nature in culture or culture in nature? Chewong ideas of 'humans' and other species / Signe Howell -- 8 Blowpipes and spears: the social significance of Huaorani technological choices / LAura Rival -- 9 Nature, culture, magic, science: on meta-languages for comparison in cultural ecology / Edvard Hwiding -- 10 The cosmic food web: human-nature relatedness in the Northwest Amazon / Kaj Århem -- 11 Enraged hunters: the domain of the wild in north-western Europe / Bertrand Hell -- Part III Nature, society and artefact -- 12 When timber grows wild: the desocialisation of Japanese mountain forests / John Knight -- 13 Xenotransplantation and transgenesis: im-moral stories about human-animal relations in the West / Eleni Papagaroufali -- 14 The reproduction of nature in contemporary high-energy physics / Detlec Nothnagel -- 15 New tools for conviviality: society and biotechnology / Paul Richards and Guido Ruivenkamp -- Name index -- Subject index
Note:
"The articles are revised versions of papers that were presented at the Third Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists in Oslo in June 1994." (Editor's preface)
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