Swamplife : people, gators, and mangroves entangled in the Everglades / Laura A. Ogden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ogden, Laura.

Series:

Quadrant book.

A Quadrant book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human ecology--Florida--Everglades National Park.

Human ecology.

Mangrove ecology--Florida--Everglades National Park.

Mangrove ecology.

Everglades National Park (Fla.)--Social conditions.

Everglades National Park (Fla.).

Everglades National Park (Fla.)--Environmental conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 185 p.) : ill.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2011]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Drawing on a decade of fieldwork with hunters in the Everglades, this book explores the lives and labours of people, animals, and plants in this most delicate and tenacious ecosystem. Today, the many visions of the Everglades have become a tangled web of contradictory practices and politics for conservation and for development. Yet within this entanglement, the place of people remains highly ambivalent. It is the role of people in the Everglades that this book focuses on.

Contents:

The Florida Everglades: an entangled landscape

The queen of the Everglades

Landscape ethnography and the politics of nature

The notorious Ashley gang

Earth, fire, and flesh: territorial refrains

The theatrics of Everglades outlaws

The travels of snakes, mangroves, and men

The gang vanishes into the mysterious swamp

Searching for paradise in the Florida Everglades

The story doesn't end with the ambush on the Sebastian River bridge

Alligator conservation, commodities, and tactics of subversion.

Notes:

"A Quadrant Book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-177) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4529-4737-6

0-8166-7702-6

OCLC:

863157842