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Nature and Society: Anthropological Perspectives

By Philippe Descola , Gisli Palsson

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
1996
ISBN
0415132150, 9780415132152
Open Library ID
OL7483660M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1207260 bytes)
Series
European Association of Social Anthropologists
Edition
1
Pages
320\321
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-04-11 19:55:47

Description

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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