Bitter shade : the ecological challenge of human consciousness / Michael R. Dove.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dove, Michael, 1949- author.

Series:

Yale agrarian studies series.

Yale scholarship online.

Yale agrarian studies series

Yale scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human ecology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 291 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, 2021.

Summary:

This book asks an age-old question about the relationship between human consciousness and the environment: How do we think about our own thoughts and actions? How can we transcend the exigencies of daily life? How can we achieve sufficient distance from our own everyday realities to think and act more sustainably? To address these questions, Michael R. Dove draws on the results of decades of research in South and Southeast Asia on how local cultures have circumvented the 'curse of consciousness' - the paradox that we cannot completely comprehend the ecosystem of which we are part.

Contents:

Nonhumans and the Paradox of the Human

Pig-Humans and Human-Pigs: Perspectivism in Dayak Myth and Ritual

Environmental Uncertainty and Augural Contingency

A Non-Western Panopticon: The Yogyakarta Sultanate and Merapi Volcano

"Bitter Shade": Signs and Things in Pakistani Agro-Forestry

Culture, Agriculture, and Politics of Rice in Java

Historic Parting of the Wild from the Civilized in Pakistan

Ritual, Myth, and the Rise of "Greedy Rice"

Weedy Signs of Intent and Error

Seeing "Life Itself "

Appendix: Principles of Augural Interpretation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 5, 2021).

Published with assistance from the Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University.

Also issued in print: 2021.

ISBN:

0-300-25807-0

0300258070 (electronic bk.)

9780300258073 (electronic bk.)