02901nam 2200541 450 991055424040332120210330160419.00-300-25807-00300258070 (electronic bk.)9780300258073 (electronic bk.)9780300251746(hardcover)0300251742(hardcover)10.12987/9780300258073(CKB)4100000011725439(MiAaPQ)EBC6455821(DE-B1597)583181(DE-B1597)9780300258073(StDuBDS)EDZ0002586525(EXLCZ)99410000001172543920210316d2021 uy| 0enguraz#---auuuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierBitter shade the ecological challenge of human consciousness /Michael R. Dove[electronic resource]New Haven :Yale University Press,2021.1 online resource (xiv, 291 pages) illustrations, mapsYale agrarian studies seriesYale scholarship onlinePublished with assistance from the Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University.Also issued in print: 2021.0-300-25174-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.Yale agrarian studies series.Yale scholarship online.Human ecologyHuman ecology.820.936Dove Michael1949-1085376StDuBDSStDuBDSBOOK9910554240403321Bitter shade2820122UNINA