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200 00$aNature and society $eanthropological perspectives /$fedited Philippe Descola and Gisli Palsson
210  1$aLondon :$cRoutledge,$d1996.
215   $a1 online resource (321 p.)
225 1 $aEuropean Association of Social Anthropologists
300   $a" ... 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.
311   $a0-415-13216-9 
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
327   $aCover; 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 species
327   $a8 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 physics
327   $a15 New tools for conviviality: society and biotechnologyName index; Subject index
330   $aThe contributors to this book focus on the relationship between nature and society from a variety of theoretical and ethnographic perspectives. Their work draws upon recent developments in social theory, biology, ethnobiology, epistemology, sociology of science, and a wide array of ethnographic case studies -- from Amazonia, the Solomon Islands, Malaysia, the Mollucan Islands, rural comunities from Japan and north-west Europe, urban Greece, and laboratories of molecular biology and high-energy physics. The discussion is divided into three parts, emphasising the problems posed by the nature-cul
410  0$aEuropean Association of Social Anthropologists
606   $aNature$xEffect of human beings on
606   $aHuman ecology
606   $aEthnology
606   $aAnthropology
615  0$aNature$xEffect of human beings on.
615  0$aHuman ecology.
615  0$aEthnology.
615  0$aAnthropology.
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701   $aDescola$b Philippe$0525047
701   $aPalsson$b Gisli$f1949-$0964071
712 02$aEuropean Association of Social Anthropologists.
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