Kockelman The Chicken and the Quetzal

Incommensurate Ontologies and Portable Values in Guatemala's Cloud Forest
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7459-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten

In The Chicken and the Quetzal Paul Kockelman tells the cultural history of a village in Guatemala's highland cloud forests and its relation to conservation movements and eco-tourism to create a theoretical framework for understanding the entanglement of values as they are created, interpreted, and reconfigured.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kockelman, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction. Enclosure and Disclosure 1

1. NGOs, Ecotourists, and Endangered Avifauna: Immaterial Labor, Incommensurate Values, and Intersubjective Intentions 13

2. A Mayan Ontology of Poultry: Selfhood, Affect, and Animals 49

3. From Reciprocation to Replacement: Grading Use Value, Labor Power, and Personhood 87

4. From Measurement to Meaning: Standardizing and Certifying Homes and Their Inhabitance 125

Conclusion. Paths, Portability, and Parasites 157

Notes 171

References 177

Index 189

Über Autor(innen)

Paul Kockelman is Professor of Anthropology at Yale University and the author of Agent, Person, Subject, Self: A Theory of Ontology, Interaction, and Infrastructure.