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  • Water, Scale and Materiality

    Anthropological Perspectives on Hydrosocial Relations

    Edited by Veronica Strang, Franz Krause ...
    Series Book 36 - Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology
    Anthropology has an important role in articulating people’s engagements with water at different spatial and temporal scales, and in showing how local relationships with waterways and marine areas translate into larger anthropogenic impacts on regional and global ecosystems. This volume explores diverse relationships with waterbodies, and considers how these are expressed in art, material culture ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Amphibious Anthropologies

    Living in Wet Environments

    by K. Sivaramakrishnan ...
    Series series Culture, Place, and Nature
    Muddying the divide between land and waterThis interdisciplinary collection delves into the experiences and meanings of life in environments where water levels and availability are in constant flux. Amphibious Anthropologies brings together a global set of case studies, from Italy’s historic marshes to the tidal pools of the Bahamas, to show how living with unpredictable wetness has become crucial ... Read more

    $38.39 CAD

  • Delta Life

    Exploring Dynamic Environments where Rivers Meet the Sea

    Edited by Mark Harris, Franz Krause ...
    Series Book 28 - Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology
    Proposing a series of innovative steps towards better understanding human lives at the interstices of water and land, this volume includes eight ethnographies from deltas around the world. The book presents ‘delta life’ with intimate descriptions of the predicaments, imaginations and activities of delta inhabitants. Conceptually, the collection develops ‘delta life’ as a metaphor for approaching ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Modern History Collection

    by Mandell Creighton, Edward John Payne, J.B. Bury, Stanley Leathes, Edward Armstrong, Laurence Burd, Richard Garnett, Horatio Brown, T.F. Tout, Emil Reich, Henry Clarke, Adolphus Ward, James Gairdner, William Cunningham, Richard Jebb, M.R. James, William Barry, Henry Lea, Franz Kraus, Thomas Lindsay, Albert Pollard, Arthur Tilley, James Whitney, Andrew Fairbairn, William Collins, James Mullinger, F.W. Maitland, Reginald Laurence, George Edmundson, Thomas Law, John Laughton, Sidney Lee, Ugo Balzani, Arthur Butler, Martin Hume, Samuel Gairdner, Robert Dunlop, John Neville Figgis, W.F. Reddaway, George Prothero, William Shaw, Joseph Tanner, Charles Firth, William Reddaway, Mortiz Brosch, Arthur Clutton-Brock, Arthur Grant, Arthur Hassall, Emile Faguet, Stafford Northcote, Harold Child, John Pollock, Henry Gwatkin, Richard Lodge, Wolfgang Michael, Harold Temperley, Robert Nisbet Bain, Ernest Benians, Moritz Kaufmann ...
    This carefully curated anthology brings together a broad selection of timeless works in one digital edition. Readers can discover essential voices, memorable stories and enduring ideas across a rich variety of literary styles. Prepared for comfortable continuous reading, this collection is ideal for exploring classic literature or returning to lasting favorites. ... Read more

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    Edited by Matthew Schneider-Mayerson ...
    In this era of climate crisis, in which our very futures are at stake, sustainability is a global imperative. Yet we tend to associate sustainability, nature, and the environment with distant places, science, and policy. The truth is that everything is environmental, from transportation to taxes, work to love, cities to cuisine.This book is the first to examine contemporary Singapore from an ... Read more

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  • Friction

    An Ethnography of Global Connection

    by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing ...
    What the struggle over the Indonesian rainforests can teach us about the social frictions that shape the world around usRubbing two sticks together produces heat and light while one stick alone is just a stick. It is the friction that produces movement, action, and effect. Anthropologist Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing challenges the widespread view that globalization invariably signifies a clash of ... Read more

    $42.89 CAD

  • Dispossession and the Environment

    Rhetoric and Inequality in Papua New Guinea

    by Paige West ...
    Series series Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures
    When journalists, developers, surf tourists, and conservation NGOs cast Papua New Guineans as living in a prior nature and prior culture, they devalue their knowledge and practice, facilitating their dispossession. Paige West's searing study reveals how a range of actors produce and reinforce inequalities in today's globalized world. She shows how racist rhetorics of representation underlie all ... Read more

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  • Alchemy in the Rain Forest

    Politics, Ecology, and Resilience in a New Guinea Mining Area

    by Jerry K. Jacka ...
    Series series New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century
    In Alchemy in the Rain Forest Jerry K. Jacka explores how the indigenous population of Papua New Guinea's highlands struggle to create meaningful lives in the midst of extreme social conflict and environmental degradation. Drawing on theories of political ecology, place, and ontology and using ethnographic, environmental, and historical data, Jacka presents a multilayered examination of the ... Read more

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  • The Anthropology of Extinction

    Essays on Culture and Species Death

    Edited by Genese Marie Sodikoff ...
    Exploring the endings of species, languages, cultures, and ways of life, this collection "provocatively makes one think about extinction in novel ways." — Biological ConservationWe live in an era marked by an accelerating rate of species death, but since the early days of the discipline, anthropology has contemplated the death of languages, cultural groups, and ways of life. The essays in this ... Read more

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  • In the Shadow of the Palms

    More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua

    by Sophie Chao ...
    With In the Shadow of the Palms, Sophie Chao examines the multispecies entanglements of oil palm plantations in West Papua, Indonesia, showing how Indigenous Marind communities understand and navigate the social, political, and environmental demands of the oil palm plant. As Chao notes, it is no secret that the palm oil sector has destructive environmental impacts: it greatly contributes to ... Read more

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  • Imagining Extinction

    The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species

    by Ursula K. Heise ...
    We are currently facing the sixth mass extinction of species in the history of life on Earth, biologists claim—the first one caused by humans. Activists, filmmakers, writers, and artists are seeking to bring the crisis to the public's attention through stories and images that use the strategies of elegy, tragedy, epic, and even comedy. Imagining Extinction is the first book to examine the cultural ... Read more

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  • Environment, Development and Change in Rural Asia-Pacific

    Between Local and Global

    Edited by John Connell, Eric Waddell ...
    Series series Routledge Pacific Rim Geographies
    This volume examines the economic, political, social and environmental challenges facing rural communities in the Asia-Pacific region, as global issues intersect with local contexts. Such challenges, from climatic change and volcanic eruption to population growth and violent civil unrest, have stimulated local resilience amongst communities and led to evolving regional institutions and environment ... Read more

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