Nature wars : essays around a contested concept / Roy Ellen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ellen, R. F., 1947- author.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology ; v. 27.

Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology ; volume 27

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nature--Effect of human beings on.

Nature.

Ethnoscience.

Ethnoscience--Indonesia.

Philosophical anthropology.

Ethnoecology.

Indonesia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 293 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps.

polychrome

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2021.

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2021]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Nature beyond the 'ontological turn'

What Black Elk left unsaid

Comparative natures in Melanesia

Political Contingency, historical ecology and the renegotiation of nature

Indigenous environmental knowledge and its transformations

From ethno-science to science

Local and scientific understandings of forest diversity

Why aren't the Nuaulu like the Matsigenka?

Roots, shoots and leaves: the art of weeding

Tools, agency and the category of 'living things'

Is there a role for ontologies in understanding plant knowledge systems?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 16, 2020).

Local Notes:

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

Other Format:

Print version: Ellen, R. F., 1947- Nature wars

ISBN:

9781789208986

178920898X

Publisher Number:

99987262125

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.