The Anthropology of Extinction: Essays on Culture and Species Death
We live in an era marked by an accelerating rate of species death, butsince the early days of the discipline, anthropology has contemplated the death oflanguages, cultural groups, and ways of life. The essays in this collection examineprocesses of -- and our understanding of -- extinction across various domains. Thecontributors argue that extinction events can be catalysts for new cultural, social, environmental, and technological developments -- that extinction processes can, paradoxically, be productive as well as destructive. The essays consider a number ofwidely publicized cases: island species in Galapagos and Madagascar; the death ofNat…
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Weitere Autoren: Constantino, Jill (Solist) / Sodikoff, Genese Marie (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-253-35713-7
- EAN: 9780253357137
- Produktnummer: 11350318
- Verlag: Indiana Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B16.7 cm x D2.3 cm 522 g
- Gewicht: 522
- Sonstiges: Ab 22 J.
Über den Autor
Genese Marie Sodikoff is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Rutgers University, Newark. She is author of Forest and Labor in Madagascar: From Colonial Concession to Global Biosphere (IUP, 2012).
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