- How can anthropology improve our understanding of the interrelationship between nature and culture?- What can anthropology contribute to practical debates which depend on particular definitions of nature, such as that concerning sustainable development?Humankind has evolved over several million years by living in and utilizing 'nature' and by assimilating it into 'culture'. Indeed, the technological and cultural advancement of the species has been widely acknowledged to rest upon human domination and control of nature. Yet, by the 1960s, the idea of culture in confrontation with nature was being challenged by science, philosophy and the environmental movement. Anthropology is increasingly concerned with such issues as they become more urgent for humankind as a whole. This important book reviews the current state of the concepts of 'nature' we use, both as scientific devices and ideological constructs, and is organised around three themes:- nature as a cultural construction;- the cultural management of the environment; and- relations between plants, animals and humans.

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Roy Frank Ellen; Katsuyoshi Fukui

Taylor & Francis Group

Taylor & Francis Group

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Psychology Press Ltd

CRC Press

Explorations in anthropology, London ; New York, 2020

Taylor & Francis (Unlimited), Milton, 1996

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

S.l, 2021

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Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Colour Plates
Preface
1 Introduction
Part I Nature as a Cultural Concept
2 Human Dimensions in the Sound Universe
3 A Poetics of Place: Ecological and Aesthetic Co-evolution in a Papua New Guinea Rainforest Community
4 A Church Too Far Near a Bridge Oddly Placed: The Cultural Construction of the Norfolk Countryside
5 Hunting and Gathering as Ways of Perceiving the Environment
6 The Invention of Nature
7 The Concept of Vital Energy Among Andean Pastoralists
Part II Relations Between Specific Domesticates and Human Populations
8 Glutinous-Endosperm Starch Food Culture Specific to Eastern and Southeastern Asia
9 Creating Landrace Diversity: The Case of the Ari People and Ensete (Ensete ventricosum) in Ethiopia
10 Human Cognition as a Product and Agent of Evolution
11 Agrarian Creolization: The Ethnobiology, History, Culture and Politics of West African Rice
12 Co-evolution Between Humans and Domesticates: The Cultural Selection of Animal Coat-Colour Diversity Among the Bodi
13 Domestic Animal as Serf: Ideologies of Nature in the Mediterranean and the Middle East
14 Crops, Techniques, and Affordances
15 Domesticatory Relationships of People, Plants and Animals
Part III Nature, Co-evolution and the Problem of Cultural Adaptation
16 The Co-existence of Man and Nature in the African Rain Forest
17 Image and Reality at Sea: Fish and Cognitive Mapping in Carolinean Navigational Knowledge
18 Long-term Adaptation of the Gidra-Speaking Population of Papua New Guinea
19 Nurturing the Forest: Strategies of Native Amazonians
20 Process Versus Product in Bornean Augury: A Traditional Knowledge System's Solution to the Problem of Knowing
21 Individual Strategy and Cultural Regulation in Nuaulu Hunting
Notes on Contributors
Index
Subject Index

2023-05-12