Organized around issues, debates and discussions concerning the various ways in which the concept of nature has been used, this book looks at how the term has been endlessly deconstructed and reclaimed, as reflected in anthropological, scientific, and similar writing over the last several decades. Made up of ten of Roy Ellen’s finest articles, this book looks back at his ideas about nature and includes a new introduction that contextualizes the arguments and takes them forward. Many of the chapters focus on research the author has conducted amongst the Nuaulu people of eastern Indonesia.
Author(s): Roy Ellen
Series: Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology, 27
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 307
City: New York
Nature Wars
Contents
Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Note on Orthography
Introduction
Chapter 1. What Black Elk Left Unsaid
Chapter 2. Comparative Natures in Melanesia
Chapter 3. Political Contingency, Historical Ecology and the Renegotiation of Nature
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
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
