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  • Alchemy in the Rain Forest

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

    par Jerry K. Jacka ...
    Collections 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 ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD

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  • Friction

    An Ethnography of Global Connection

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $42.99 CAD

  • Ancestral Lines

    The Maisin of Papua New Guinea and the Fate of the Rainforest, Second Edition

    par John Barker ...
    This compelling ethnography offers a nuanced case study of the ways in which the Maisin of Papua New Guinea navigate pressing economic and environmental issues. Beautifully written and accessible to most readers, Ancestral Lines is designed with introductory cultural anthropology courses in mind. Barker has organized the book into chapters that mirror many of the major topics covered in ... En savoir plus

    $23.99 CAD

  • Ancestral Lines

    The Maisin of Papua New Guinea and the Fate of the Rainforest

    par John Barker ...
    More than a century of interaction with colonial and global agencies and forces have brought many changes to the lives of the Maisin people who live on the northeastern coast of Papua New Guinea. Yet ancestral traditions continue to strongly inform their way of life. Their beautifully designed tapa cloth, made from the pounded inner bark of the paper mulberry tree, most vividly connects the past ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • Conservation Is Our Government Now

    The Politics of Ecology in Papua New Guinea

    par Paige West, Arturo Escobar, Dianne Rocheleau ...
    Collections series New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century
    A significant contribution to political ecology, Conservation Is Our Government Now is an ethnographic examination of the history and social effects of conservation and development efforts in Papua New Guinea. Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted over a period of seven years, Paige West focuses on the Crater Mountain Wildlife Management Area, the site of a biodiversity conservation project ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Anthropology of Extinction

    Essays on Culture and Species Death

    Modifié par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Placing Animals

    An Introduction to the Geography of Human-Animal Relations

    par Julie Urbanik ...
    Collections series Human Geography in the Twenty-First Century: Issues and Applications
    As Julie Urbanik vividly illustrates, non-human animals are central to our daily human lives. We eat them, wear them, live with them, work them, experiment on them, try to save them, spoil them, abuse them, fight them, hunt them, buy and sell them, love them, and hate them. Placing Animals is the first book to bring together the historical development of the field of animal geography with a ... En savoir plus

    $51.99 CAD

  • Waterworlds

    Anthropology in Fluid Environments

    Modifié par Kirsten Hastrup, Frida Hastrup ...
    Collections Livre 3 - Ethnography, Theory, Experiment
    In one form or another, water participates in the making and unmaking of people’s lives, practices, and stories. Contributors’ detailed ethnographic work analyzes the union and mutual shaping of water and social lives. This volume discusses current ecological disturbances and engages in a world where unbounded relationalities and unsettled frames of orientation mark the lives of all, ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

  • Nature Unbound

    Conservation, Capitalism and the Future of Protected Areas

    par Dan Brockington, Rosaleen Duffy, Jim Igoe ...
    This groundbreaking volume is the first comprehensive, critical examination of the rise of protected areas and their current social and economic position in our world. It examines the social impacts of protected areas, the conflicts that surround them, the alternatives to them and the conceptual categories they impose.The book explores key debates on devolution, participation and democracy; the ... En savoir plus

    $83.99 CAD

  • Environmental Change in South-East Asia

    People, Politics and Sustainable Development

    Modifié par Raymond Bryant, Michael Parnwell ...
    Environmental Change in South-East Asia brings together scholars, journalists, consultants and NGO activists to explore the interaction of people, politics and ecology. Ostensibly "green" activities - plantation forestry, eco-tourism, hydro-electricity - are revealed as guises used by elites to promote their own political and economic interests.Highlighting fatal flaws in presently exclusive ... En savoir plus

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  • Linking Conservation and Poverty Reduction

    Landscapes, People and Power

    par Robert Fisher, Stewart Maginnis, William Jackson, Edmund Barrow, Sally Jeanrenaud ...
    'This book aims to inspire the conservation community not to regard poverty reduction as someone else's job but to take responsibility for it as part of ecosystem restoration. Though no solutions are perfect,the text and examples given offer encouraging and useful guidance.' Gill Shepherd, poverty and landscapes thematic leader, IUCN Forest Conservation Programme. 'This book could be the catalyst ... En savoir plus

    $56.33 CAD

  • Culture and the Question of Rights

    Forests, Coasts, and Seas in Southeast Asia

    par Marina Roseman, Stephanie Gorson Fried, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing ...
    This collection of ethnographic and interpretive essays fundamentally alters the debate over indigenous land claims in Southeast Asia and beyond. Based on fieldwork conducted in Malaysia and Indonesia during the 1980s and 1990s, these studies explore new terrain at the intersection of environmental justice, nature conservation, cultural performance, and the politics of making and interpreting ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD