04050nam 2200709Ia 450 991017097680332120200520144314.01-134-82715-60-203-45956-31-134-82716-41-280-06750-00-203-45106-610.4324/9780203451069 (CKB)1000000000252154(EBL)181742(OCoLC)475892935(SSID)ssj0000304054(PQKBManifestationID)11275949(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000304054(PQKBWorkID)10278366(PQKB)10560278(MiAaPQ)EBC181742(OCoLC)958102935(EXLCZ)99100000000025215419960909d1996 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrNature and society anthropological perspectives /edited by Philippe Descola and Gsli PlssonLondon ;New York Routledge19961 online resource (321 p.)European Association of Social Anthropologists" ... revised versions of papers that were presented at the Third Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists in Oslo in June 1994." -- Editor's preface.0-415-13216-9 0-415-13215-0 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Editors' preface; 1 Introduction; Part I Contested domains and boundaries; 2 The optimal forager and economic man; 3 Ecology as semiotics: outlines of a contextualist paradigm for human ecology; 4 Human-environmental relations: orientalism, paternalism and communalism; 5 Constructing natures: symbolic ecology and social practice; 6 The cognitive geometry of nature: a contextual approach; Part II Sociologies of nature; 7 Nature in culture or culture in nature? Chewong ideas of 'humans' and other species8 Blowpipes and spears: the social significance of Huaorani technological choices9 Nature, culture, magic, science: on meta-languages for comparison in cultural ecology; 10 The cosmic food web: human-nature relatedness in the Northwest Amazon; 11 Enraged hunters: the domain of the wild in north-western Europe; Part III Nature, society and artefact; 12 When timber grows wild: the desocialisation of Japanese mountain forests; 13 Xenotransplantation and transgenesis: im-moral stories about human-animal relations in the West; 14 The reproduction of nature in contemporary high-energy physics15 New tools for conviviality: society and biotechnologyName index; Subject indexThe 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-culEuropean Association of Social AnthropologistsNatureEffect of human beings onHuman ecologyEthnologyAnthropologyNatureEffect of human beings on.Human ecology.Ethnology.Anthropology.304.2Descola Philippe525047Gisli Palsson1949-885294European Association of Social Anthropologists.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910170976803321Nature and society4194064UNINA