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Anthropology and Nature.

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hastrup, Kirsten
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013.
Colección:Routledge studies in anthropology.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.
  • 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.