Anthropology and nature / edited by Kirsten Hastrup.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hastrup, Kirsten.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Routledge studies in anthropology ; 14.

Routledge studies in anthropology ; 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropology--Philosophy.

Anthropology.

Philosophy of nature.

Human ecology--Philosophy.

Human ecology.

Physical Description:

x, 259 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2013.

Contents:

Nature: anthropology on the edge / Kirsten Hastrup

More-than-human sociality: a call for critical description / Anna Tsing

Qualifying coastal nature: bio-conservation projects in South East India / Frida Hastrup

Engaged world-making: movements of sand, sea, and people at two Pacific islands / Maria Louise Bønnelykke Robertson, Cecilie Rubow

Political ecology in a more-than-human world: rethinking 'natural' hazards / Sarah J. Whatmore

Islands of nature: insular objects and frozen spirits in Northern Mongolia / Morten Axel Pedersen

Establishing a 'Third Space'? Anthropology and the potentials of transcending a Great Divide / Andre Gingrich

The inevitability of nature as a rhetorical resource / Steve Rayner, Clare Heyward

Divide and rule: nature and society in a global forest programme / Signe Howell

Life at the border: Nim Chimpsky et al. / Gisli Palsson

Human activity between nature and society: the negotiation of infertility in China / Ayo Wahlberg

Broken cosmologies: climate, water, and state in the Peruvian Andes / Karsten Pærregaard

Of maps and men: making places and people in the Arctic / Kirsten Hastrup

Designing environments for life / Tim Ingold.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780415702751

0415702755

OCLC:

828768877

Publisher Number:

99955191250

40022723954