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Record Nr.

UNINA9910554240403321

Autore

Dove Michael <1949->

Titolo

Bitter shade : the ecological challenge of human consciousness / / Michael R. Dove [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven : , : Yale University Press, , 2021

ISBN

0-300-25807-0

0300258070 (electronic bk.)

9780300258073 (electronic bk.)

9780300251746

0300251742

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 291 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

Yale agrarian studies series

Yale scholarship online

Disciplina

820.936

Soggetti

Human ecology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Published with assistance from the Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University.

Also issued in print: 2021.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Nonhumans and the Paradox of the Human -- Pig-Humans and Human-Pigs: Perspectivism in Dayak Myth and Ritual -- Environmental Uncertainty and Augural Contingency -- A Non-Western Panopticon: The Yogyakarta Sultanate and Merapi Volcano -- "Bitter Shade": Signs and Things in Pakistani Agro-Forestry -- Culture, Agriculture, and Politics of Rice in Java -- Historic Parting of the Wild from the Civilized in Pakistan -- Ritual, Myth, and the Rise of "Greedy Rice" -- Weedy Signs of Intent and Error -- Seeing "Life Itself " -- Appendix: Principles of Augural Interpretation.

Sommario/riassunto

This book asks an age-old question about the relationship between human consciousness and the environment: How do we think about our own thoughts and actions? How can we transcend the exigencies of daily life? How can we achieve sufficient distance from our own everyday realities to think and act more sustainably? To address these questions, Michael R. Dove draws on the results of decades of research in South and Southeast Asia on how local cultures have circumvented



the 'curse of consciousness' - the paradox that we cannot completely comprehend the ecosystem of which we are part.