Hakutulokset: Sarja culture, place, and nature
yhteensä 37 hakutulosta
Spawning Modern Fish
Winner of the Francis L.K. Hsu Book Prize from the Society for East Asian AnthropologyMultispecies ethnography turns its attention to the bodies of fishSince the …
Being and Place among the Tlingit
In Being and Place among the Tlingit, anthropologist Thomas F. Thornton examines the concept of place in the language, social structure, economy, and ritual of southeast Alaska's …
Gardens of Gold
“This is a soya bean,” the Biangai villager explained, “a money bean.”Since the start of colonial gold mining in the early 1920s, the Biangai villagers of Elauru and Winima in …
Nature Protests
As societies around the world are challenged to respond to ever growing environmental crises, it has become increasingly important for activists, policy makers, and environmental …
Caring for Glaciers
Regional geopolitical processes have turned the Himalayan region of Ladakh, in northwest India, into a strategic border area with an increasing military presence that has …
Consuming Ivory
Examines the complex global impact of the ivory tradeThe economic prosperity of two nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century New England towns rested on factories that manufactured …
Sacred Cows and Chicken Manchurian
Challenges popular generalizations about cow protection and beef consumptionBovine politics exposes fault lines within contemporary Indian society, where eating beef is …
Turning Land into Capital
In Southeast Asia reversals of earlier agrarian reforms have rolled back "land-to-the-tiller" policies created in the wake of Cold War–era revolutions. This trend, marked by …
Mapping Water in Dominica
How sugarcane monoculture decimated an island's water supply and peopleOpen access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295748733Dominica, a place once described as “Nature’s Island,” was rich …
Tahiti Beyond the Postcard
Winner of the 2013 ICAS Book Prize (Social Sciences)The “Tahiti” that most people imagine - white-sand beaches, turquoise lagoons, and beautiful women - is a product of 18th …
Ordering the Myriad Things
Shortlisted for the SHNH Natural History Book Prize (John Thackray Medal) from the Society for the History of Natural HistoryLonglisted for the 2023 SHNH Natural History Book Prize …
Forests Are Gold
Forests Are Gold examines the management of Vietnam's forests in the tumultuous twentieth century—from French colonialism to the recent transition to market-oriented economics—as …