Nature Wars

Essays Around a Contested Concept
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-78920-897-9
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 27, 308 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 599 g

Reihe: Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology

Organized around issues, debates and discussions concerning the various ways in which the concept of nature has been used, this book looks at how the term has been endlessly deconstructed and reclaimed, as reflected in anthropological, scientific, and similar writing over the last several decades. Made up of ten of Roy Ellen’s finest articles, this book looks back at his ideas about nature and includes a new introduction that contextualizes the arguments and takes them forward. Many of the chapters focus on research the author has conducted amongst the Nuaulu people of eastern Indonesia.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ellen, Roy

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments

Note on Orthography

Introduction: Nature Beyond the 'Ontological Turn'

Chapter 1. What Black Elk Left Unsaid

Chapter 2. Comparative Natures in Melanesia

Chapter 3. Political Contingency, Historical Ecology, and the Renegotiation of Nature

     Appendix: The Consequences of Deforestation - A Nuaulu Text from Rouhua Seram 1994

Chapter 4. Indigenous Environmental Knowledge and its Transformations

Chapter 5. From Ethno-science to Science

Chapter 6. Local and Scientific Understandings of Forest Diversity

Chapter 7. Why Aren't the Nuaulu Like the Matsigenka?

Chapter 8. Roots, Shoots and Leaves - The Art of Weeding

Chapter 9. Tools, Agency and the Category of ‘Living Things’

Chapter 10. Is There a Role for Ontologies in Understanding Plant Knowledge Systems?

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ellen, Roy
Roy Ellen is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Human Ecology at the University of Kent, where he initiated the programmes in environmental anthropology and ethnobotany, and founded the Centre for Biocultural Diversity.  His recent books include On the Edge of the Banda Zone (2003), Nuaulu Religious Practices (2012), and Kinship, Population and Social Reproduction in the 'New Indonesia' (2018).