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Author:   Roy Ellen
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Volume:   27
ISBN:  

9781789208979

ISBN 10:   1789208971
Pages:   308
Publication Date:   01 November 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Note on Orthography Introduction: Nature Beyond the 'Ontological Turn' Chapter 1. What Black Elk Left Unsaid Chapter 2. Comparative Natures in Melanesia Chapter 3. Political Contingency, Historical Ecology, and the Renegotiation of Nature Appendix: The Consequences of Deforestation - A Nuaulu Text from Rouhua Seram 1994 Chapter 4. Indigenous Environmental Knowledge and its Transformations Chapter 5. From Ethno-science to Science Chapter 6. Local and Scientific Understandings of Forest Diversity Chapter 7. Why Aren't the Nuaulu Like the Matsigenka? Chapter 8. Roots, Shoots and Leaves - The Art of Weeding Chapter 9. Tools, Agency and the Category of 'Living Things' Chapter 10. Is There a Role for Ontologies in Understanding Plant Knowledge Systems? References Index

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An important topic from a much-appreciated scholar . Carole Crumley, Swedish Agricultural University and Uppsala University This is a timely and important contribution that brings together in a single volume a collection of essays that represents the thinking of one of environmental anthropology's most consistent and influential voices across an entire range of issues . Miguel Alexiades, University of Kent

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Roy Ellen is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Human Ecology at the University of Kent, where he initiated the programmes in environmental anthropology and ethnobotany, and founded the Centre for Biocultural Diversity. His recent books include On the Edge of the Banda Zone (2003), Nuaulu Religious Practices (2012), and Kinship, Population and Social Reproduction in the 'New Indonesia' (2018).

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