Sökt på: Serie culture, place, and nature
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Disturbed Forests, Fragmented Memories
In the hill country of northeast Cambodia, just a few kilometers from the Vietnam border, sits the village of Tang Kadon. This community of hill rice farmers of the Jarai ethnic …
Gardens of Gold
Since the start of colonial gold mining in the early 1920s, the Biangai villagers of Elauru and Winima in Papua New Guinea have moved away from planting yams and other subsistence …
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 …
Forest Guardians, Forest Destroyers
In this far-reaching examination of environmental problems and politics in northern Thailand, Tim Forsyth and Andrew Walker analyze deforestation, water supply, soil erosion, use …
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
Bovine politics exposes fault lines within contemporary Indian society, where eating beef is simultaneously a violation of sacred taboos, an expression of marginalized identities, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Fukushima Futures
A probe of the environmental and sociocultural effects of industrialization and nuclear disaster on coastal livelihoodsBoth before and after the 2011 "Triple Disaster" of …