{"product_id":"in-search-of-the-rain-forest-9780822332183","title":"In Search of the Rain Forest","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCollects essays that offer important reflections on the image and rhetoric of the rain forest. Attentive to such complexities, this title focuses on specific portrayals of rain forests and the consequences of these representations for both forest inhabitants and outsiders.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eIn Search of the Rain Forest\u003c\/i\u003e dissects the multiple meanings and the iconography of tropical nature in a very interesting way. It moves ‘rain forest studies’ into the realm of cultural critique in a manner that serves important scholarly as well as consciousness-raising ends.”—Susanna B. Hecht, coauthor of \u003ci\u003eThe Fate of the Forest: Developers, Destroyers, and Defenders of the Amazon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is an immensely thought-provoking and entertaining book. It makes a compelling case for an approach to the rain forest that eschews environmental fundamentalism in favor of a rich and multilayered understanding of the social complexities of rain forest practice and representation.”—Raymond L. Bryant, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Political Ecology of Forestry in Burma, 1824–1994\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Series vii\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e Mapping Out The Quest \u003cbr\u003e In Search of the Rain Forest \/ Candace Slater 3\u003cbr\u003e Rain Forest Icons \u003cbr\u003e Fire in El Dorado, or Images of Tropical Nature and Their Practical Effects \/ Candace Slater 41\u003cbr\u003e Subterranean Techniques: Corporate Environmentalism, Oil Operations, and Social Injustice in the Ecuadorian Rain Forest \/ Suzana Sawyer 69\u003cbr\u003e The Voice of Ix Chel: Fashioning Maya Tradition in the Belizean Rain Forest \/ Alex Greene 101\u003cbr\u003e Rain Forest and Jungle \u003cbr\u003e In Search of the Maya Forest \/ Scott Fedick 133\u003cbr\u003e Spectacles of Wildness \u003cbr\u003e Bio-Ironies of the Fractured Forest: India's Tiger Reserves \/ Paul Greenough 167\u003cbr\u003e Weapons of the Wild: Strategic Uses of Violence and Wildness in the Rain Forests of Indonesian Borneo \/ Nancy Lee Peluso 204\u003cbr\u003e The Viral Forest in Motion: Ebola, African Forests, and Emerging Cartographies of Environmental Danger \/ Charles Zerner 246\u003cbr\u003e Afterword: The Ongoing Search 285\u003cbr\u003e Contributors 305\u003cbr\u003e Index 309","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406033822039,"sku":"9780822332183","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822332183.jpg?v=1730494314","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/in-search-of-the-rain-forest-9780822332183","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}