{"product_id":"anthropology-and-nature-9781138952867","title":"Anthropology and Nature","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn 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. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe 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 t\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"The book is a comprehensive selection of chapters and a joy to read for anyone who is interested in social anthropology’s approaches to nature. In general, it is a thought-provoking work that offers inspiring examples on the different ways that anthropologists approach nature today. The book is also a must-read for other social scientists and especially scholars engaged in the natural sciences. It will also give policy makers in the environmental field valuable insights into their work.\"—\u003c\/strong\u003e Maija Lassila, \u003cem\u003eJournal of the Finnish Anthropological Society\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Nature: Introducing Anthropology on the Edge \u003ci\u003eKirsten Hastrup \u003c\/i\u003e2. More-Than-Human Sociality: A Call for Critical Description \u003ci\u003eAnna Tsing \u003c\/i\u003e3. Qualifying Coastal Nature: Bio-Conservation Projects in South East India \u003ci\u003eFrida Hastrup \u003c\/i\u003e4. Engaged World-Making: Movements of Sand, Sea, and People at Two Pacific Islands \u003ci\u003eMaria Louise Bønnelykke Robertson and Cecilie Rubow \u003c\/i\u003e5. Political Ecology in a More-Than-Human World: Rethinking \"Natural\" Hazards \u003ci\u003eSarah Whatmore \u003c\/i\u003e6. Islands of Nature: Insular Objects and Frozen Spirits in Northern Mongolia \u003ci\u003eMorten Axel Pedersen \u003c\/i\u003e7. Establishing a \"Third Space\": Anthropology and the Potentials of Transcending a Great Divide \u003ci\u003eAndre Gingrich \u003c\/i\u003e8. The Inevitability of Nature as a Rhetorical Resource \u003ci\u003eSteve Rayner and Clare Heyward \u003c\/i\u003e9. Divide and Rule: Nature and Society in a Global Forest Programme \u003ci\u003eSigne Howell \u003c\/i\u003e10. Life at the Border: Nim Chimpsky et al. \u003ci\u003eGísli Pálsson \u003c\/i\u003e11. Human Activity Between Nature and Society: The Negotiation of Infertility in China \u003ci\u003eAyo Wahlberg \u003c\/i\u003e12. Broken Cosmologies: Climate, Water, and State in the Peruvian Andes \u003ci\u003eKarsten Pærregaard \u003c\/i\u003e13: Of Maps and Men: Making Places and People in the Arctic \u003ci\u003eKirsten Hastrup \u003c\/i\u003e14. Designing Environments for Life \u003ci\u003eTim Ingold\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019546558807,"sku":"9781138952867","price":37.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781138952867.jpg?v=1750780591","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/anthropology-and-nature-9781138952867","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}