Bitter Shade: The Ecological Challenge of Human Consciousness

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Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION. Nonhumans and the Paradox of the Human
CHAPTER 1. Pig-Humans and Human-Pigs: Perspectivism in Dayak Myth and Ritual
CHAPTER 2. Environmental Uncertainty and Augural Contingency
CHAPTER 3. A Non-Western Panopticon: The Yogyakarta Sultanate and Merapi Volcano
CHAPTER 4. “Bitter Shade”: Signs and Things in Pakistani Agro-Forestry
CHAPTER 5. Culture, Agriculture, and Politics of Rice in Java
CHAPTER 6. Historic Parting of the Wild from the Civilized in Pakistan
CHAPTER 7. Ritual, Myth, and the Rise of “Greedy Rice”
CHAPTER 8. Weedy Signs of Intent and Error
EPILOGUE. Seeing “Life Itself ”
Appendix: Principles of Augural Interpretation
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