| Title | : | Nature and Society |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Philippe Descola & Gísli Pálsson |
| Release | : | 2003-12-16 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Anthropology, Books, Nonfiction, Social Science |
| Size | : | 3635320 |
| 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. |
