Nature and Society

Anthropological Perspectives
1. Auflage 1996
ISBN: 978-0-415-13216-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 459 g

Reihe: European Association of Social Anthropologists

The contributors to this book focus on the relationship between nature and society from a variety of theoretical and ethnographic perspectives. Their work draws upon recent developments in social theory, biology, ethnobiology, epistemology, sociology of science, and a wide array of ethnographic case studies -- from Amazonia, the Solomon Islands, Malaysia, the Mollucan Islands, rural comunities from Japan and north-west Europe, urban Greece, and laboratories of molecular biology and high-energy physics. The discussion is divided into three parts, emphasising the problems posed by the nature-culture dualism, some misguided attempts to respond to these problems, and potential avenues out of the current dilemmas of ecological discourse.

Zielgruppe

Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Descola, Philippe

Palsson, Gisli

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie
• Technische Wissenschaften Umwelttechnik | Umwelttechnologie Umwelttechnik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umwelttechnik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Soziale & wirtschaftliche Auswirkungen von Umweltfaktoren

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of illustrations, Notes on contributors, Editors’ preface, 1 Introduction, Part I Contested domains and boundaries, Part II Sociologies of nature, Part III Nature, society and artefact, Name index, Subject index

Über Autor(innen)

Philippe Descola, Gisli Palsson