ISBN:
0-521-41103-3
,
978-0-521-41103-5
Language:
English
Pages:
xvi, 372 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology 93
Uniform Title:
La _nature domestique
Keywords:
Ecuador Peru
;
Achuar
;
Weltanschauung
;
Kulturökologie
;
Subsistenzwirtschaft
Abstract:
The Achuar Indians live in the remote forest reaches of the Upper Amazon and have developed sophisticated strategies of resource management. Philippe Descola, who has gathered material over several years of fieldwork, documents their rich knowledge of the environment. He explains how this technical knowledge of the increasingly threatened Amazonian ecosystems is interwoven with cosmological ideas that endow nature with the characteristics of society. Combining a symbolist approach with an ecological analysis, the book contributes a new theory of the social construction of nature. (Verlagsangaben)
Description / Table of Contents:
List of illustrations, part title illustrations -- Preface -- Preface to the Englisch edition -- A note on spelling -- General introduction -- Part I. The Sphere of Nature -- Introduction I -- 1. The territorial space -- 2. Landscape and cosmos -- 3. Nature's beings -- Part II. On the Proper Use of Nature -- Introduction II -- 4. The world of the house -- 5. The world of gardens -- 6. The world of the forest -- 7. The world of the river -- 8. Categories of practice -- 9. The good life -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Subject index -- Index of plants and animals
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 345-354
