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Extinction Studies : Stories of Time, Death, and Generations / Thom van Dooren, Matthew Chrulew, Deborah B. Rose.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Extinction (Biology).
- Endangered species.
- Wildlife conservation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (238 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2017]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Extinction Studies asks what extinction means to diverse global communities. Essays focus on the entangled ecological and social dimensions of extinction, exploring the ways in which this event catastrophically interrupts life's gifts of time, death, and generations, opening up important philosophical questions about our place in, and obligations to, a more-than-human world.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction: Telling Extinction Stories
- 1. Walking with Ōkami, the Large-Mouthed Pure God
- 2. Saving the Golden Lion Tamarin
- 3. Extinction in a Distant Land: The Question of Elliot's Bird of Paradise
- 4. Monk Seals at the Edge: Blessings in a Time of Peril
- 5. Encountering Leatherbacks in Multispecies Knots of Time
- 6. Spectral Crows in Hawai'i: Conservation and the Work of Inheritance
- Afterword: It Is an Entire World that Has Disappeared
- Contributors
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 12. Jul 2017)
- ISBN:
- 0-231-17880-8
- OCLC:
- 974035760
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