Anthropology Of Nature
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Nature And Society
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Author : Philippe Descola
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2003-12-16
Nature And Society written by Philippe Descola and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-12-16 with Social Science categories.
The contributors to this book focus on the relationship between nature and society from a variety of theoretical and ethnographic perspectives. Their work draws upon recent developments in social theory, biology, ethnobiology, epistemology, sociology of science, and a wide array of ethnographic case studies -- from Amazonia, the Solomon Islands, Malaysia, the Mollucan Islands, rural comunities from Japan and north-west Europe, urban Greece, and laboratories of molecular biology and high-energy physics. The discussion is divided into three parts, emphasising the problems posed by the nature-culture dualism, some misguided attempts to respond to these problems, and potential avenues out of the current dilemmas of ecological discourse.
Anthropology And Nature
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Author : Kirsten Hastrup
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-08-15
Anthropology And Nature written by Kirsten Hastrup and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-15 with Social Science categories.
On the basis of empirical studies, this book explores nature as an integral part of the social worlds conventionally studied by anthropologists. The book may be read as a form of scholarly "edgework," resisting institutional divisions and conceptual routines in the interest of exploring new modalities of anthropological knowledge making. The present interest in the natural world is partly a response to large-scale natural disasters and global climate change, and to a keen sense that nature matters matters to society at many levels, ranging from the microbiological and genetic framing of reproduction, over co-species development, to macro-ecological changes of weather and climate. Given that the human footprint is now conspicuous across the entire globe, in the oceans as well as in the atmosphere, it is difficult to claim that nature is what is given and permanent, while people and societies are ephemeral and simply derivative features. This implies that society matters to nature, and some natural scientists look towards the social sciences for an understanding of how people think and how societies work. The book thus opens up a space for new forms of reflection on how natures and societies are generated.
Nature Culture And Human History
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Author : Davydd J. Greenwood
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Release Date : 1977
Nature Culture And Human History written by Davydd J. Greenwood and has been published by HarperCollins Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Social Science categories.
The Nature Of Anthropology
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Author : Pertti J. Pelto
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
The Nature Of Anthropology written by Pertti J. Pelto and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Anthropology categories.
Redefining Nature
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Author : Roy Ellen
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-01-07
Redefining Nature written by Roy Ellen and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-07 with Nature categories.
How can anthropology improve our understanding of the interrelationship between nature and culture?- What can anthropology contribute to practical debates which depend on particular definitions of nature, such as that concerning sustainable development?Humankind has evolved over several million years by living in and utilizing 'nature' and by assimilating it into 'culture'. Indeed, the technological and cultural advancement of the species has been widely acknowledged to rest upon human domination and control of nature. Yet, by the 1960s, the idea of culture in confrontation with nature was being challenged by science, philosophy and the environmental movement. Anthropology is increasingly concerned with such issues as they become more urgent for humankind as a whole. This important book reviews the current state of the concepts of 'nature' we use, both as scientific devices and ideological constructs, and is organised around three themes:- nature as a cultural construction;- the cultural management of the environment; and- relations between plants, animals and humans.
In The Society Of Nature
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Author : Philippe Descola
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1994
In The Society Of Nature written by Philippe Descola and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with History categories.
The Achuar Indians live in the remote forest reaches of the Upper Amazon and have developed sophisticated strategies of resource management. Philippe Descola, who has gathered material over several years of fieldwork, documents their rich knowledge of the environment. He explains how this technical knowledge of the increasingly threatened Amazonian ecosystems is interwoven with cosmological ideas that endow nature with the characteristics of society. Combining a symbolist approach with an ecological analysis, the book contributes a new theory of the social construction of nature.
Culture Man And Nature
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Author : Marvin Harris
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
Culture Man And Nature written by Marvin Harris and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Social Science categories.
Anthropology Of Nature
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Author : Philippe Descola
language : en
Publisher: Collège de France
Release Date : 2014-07-08
Anthropology Of Nature written by Philippe Descola and has been published by Collège de France this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-08 with Social Science categories.
It looks as though the anthropology of nature is an oxymoron of sorts, given that for the past few centuries, nature has been characterized in the West by humans’ absence, and humans, by their capacity to overcome what is natural in them. But nature does not exist as a sphere of autonomous realities for all peoples. By positing a universal distribution of humans and non-humans in two separate ontological fields, we are for one quite ill equipped to analyse all those systems of objectification of the world in which a formal distinction between nature and culture does not obtain. This type of distinction moreover appears to go against what the evolutionary and life sciences have taught us about the phyletic continuity of organisms. Our singularity in relation to all other existents is relative, as is our awareness of it.
Culture People Nature
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Author : Marvin Harris
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Release Date : 1988
Culture People Nature written by Marvin Harris and has been published by HarperCollins Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Social Science categories.
Professor Harris - the leading theorist in cultural materialism - bases this comprehensive work on the perspective of thematic and theoretical coherence, giving the book depth and continuity. Speaking directly to students, helpful chapter introductions and end-of-chapter summaries focus on key points before and after reading each chapter. This seventh edition includes meticulous updating of research and scholarship, especially in the very active field of physical anthropology and archaeology. A new feature - "America Now Updates" - turns an anthropological eye on the contemporary U.S., emphasizing the comparative aspects of anthropology and making the discipline relevant to students.
Nature Culture And Gender
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Author : Carol MacCormack
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1980-12-31
Nature Culture And Gender written by Carol MacCormack and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980-12-31 with Social Science categories.
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