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Beyond the lens of conservation : Malagasy and Swiss imaginations of one another / Eva Keller.
Penn Museum Library QH77.M28 K45 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Keller, Eva.
- Series:
- Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology ; v. 20.
- Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology ; volume 20
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nature conservation--Social aspects.
- Nature conservation.
- Nature conservation--Social aspects--Madagascar.
- Nature conservation--Social aspects--Switzerland.
- Rain forest conservation.
- Parc national de Masoala (Madagascar).
- Madagascar.
- Madagascar--Parc national de Masoala.
- Switzerland.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 244 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn, 2015.
- Contents:
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements/Fisaorana
- Notes on text
- Introduction
- Part I. Chapter 1. A virtual tour through Little Masoala ; Chapter 2. Intention and perception ; Chapter 3. Zooming in on morality ; Chapter 4. A kind of people ; Chapter 5. The coconut schema ; Extract from 'Marrakech' by George Orwell
- Part II. Chapter 6. Living with the Masoala National Park ; Chapter 7. The banana plant and the moon ; Chapter 8. The island of the wanderer ; Chapter 9. Who are 'they'? ; Chapter 10. Historical reflections
- Conclusions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-238) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1782385525
- 9781782385523
- OCLC:
- 890792808
- Publisher Number:
- 99966260386
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