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.
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The contributors to this book focus on the relationship between nature and society from a variety of theoretical and ethnographic perspectives and emphasize the problems posed by the nature-culture dualism.
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List of illustrations, Notes on contributors, Editors’ preface, 1 Introduction, Part I Contested domains and boundaries, Part II Sociologies of nature, Part III Nature, society and artefact, Name index, Subject index
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780415132152
Publisert
1996-07-25
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
544 gr
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
138 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, P, UP, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
320

Biographical note

Philippe Descola, Gisli Palsson