Introduces heterogeneity and paradox into our understanding of political ecology, critiquing 'modernist ecologies' and emphasizing transnational, place-based ones.
Introduces heterogeneity and paradox into our understanding of political ecology, critiquing 'modernist ecologies' and emphasizing transnational, place-based ones.
Aletta Biersack is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oregon. She is the editor of Papuan Borderlands: Huli, Duna, and Ipili Perspectives on the Papua New Guinea Highlands and Clio in Oceania: Toward a Historical Anthropology. James B. Greenberg is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arizona and Professor at the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology. He is the author of Blood Ties: Life and Violence in Rural Mexico and Santiago’s Sword: Chatino Peasant Religion and Economics.
Inhaltsangabe
About the Series ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction / Reimagining Political Ecology Culture/Power/History/Nature / Aletta Biersack 3 Beyond Modernist Ecologies Equilibrium Theory and Interdisciplinary Borrowing: A Comparison of Old and New Ecological Anthropologies / Michael R. Dove 43 Nature and Society in the Age of Postmodernity / Gisli Palsson 70 Constructing and Appropriating Nature Ecopolitics through Ethnography: The Cultures of Finland’s Forest-Nature / Eeva Berglund 97 The Political Ecology of Fisheries in the Upper Gulf of California / James B. Greenberg 121 “But the Young Men Don’t Want to Farm Any More”: Political Ecology and Consumer Culture in Belize / Richard Wilk 149 Properties of Nature, Properties of Culture: Ownership, Recognition, and the Politics of Nature in a Papua New Guinea Society / Joel Robbins 171 Ethnographies of Nature Progress of the Victims: Political Ecology in the Peruvian Amazon / Soren Hvalkof 195 Red River, Green War: The Politics of Place Along the Porgera River / Aletta Biersack 233 Between Politics and Poetics: Narratives of Dispossession in Sarawak, East Malaysia / J. Peter Brosius 281 Between Nature and Culture Rappaport’s Rose: Structure, Agency, and Historical Contingency in Ecological Anthropology / J. Stephen Lansing, John Schoenfelder, and Vernon Scarborough 325 Works Cited 359 Contributors 407 Index 409
About the Series ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction / Reimagining Political Ecology Culture/Power/History/Nature / Aletta Biersack 3 Beyond Modernist Ecologies Equilibrium Theory and Interdisciplinary Borrowing: A Comparison of Old and New Ecological Anthropologies / Michael R. Dove 43 Nature and Society in the Age of Postmodernity / Gisli Palsson 70 Constructing and Appropriating Nature Ecopolitics through Ethnography: The Cultures of Finland’s Forest-Nature / Eeva Berglund 97 The Political Ecology of Fisheries in the Upper Gulf of California / James B. Greenberg 121 “But the Young Men Don’t Want to Farm Any More”: Political Ecology and Consumer Culture in Belize / Richard Wilk 149 Properties of Nature, Properties of Culture: Ownership, Recognition, and the Politics of Nature in a Papua New Guinea Society / Joel Robbins 171 Ethnographies of Nature Progress of the Victims: Political Ecology in the Peruvian Amazon / Soren Hvalkof 195 Red River, Green War: The Politics of Place Along the Porgera River / Aletta Biersack 233 Between Politics and Poetics: Narratives of Dispossession in Sarawak, East Malaysia / J. Peter Brosius 281 Between Nature and Culture Rappaport’s Rose: Structure, Agency, and Historical Contingency in Ecological Anthropology / J. Stephen Lansing, John Schoenfelder, and Vernon Scarborough 325 Works Cited 359 Contributors 407 Index 409
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