Beyond the Lens of Conservation : : Malagasy and Swiss Imaginations of One Another / / Eva Keller.

The global agenda of Nature conservation has led to the creation of the Masoala National Park in Madagascar and to an exhibit in its support at a Swiss zoo, the centerpiece of which is a mini-rainforest replica. Does such a cooperation also trigger a connection between ordinary people in these two f...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology ; 20
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Physical Description:1 online resource (260 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements/Fisaorana
  • Notes on Text
  • Introduction
  • Part I
  • Chapter 1 A Virtual Tour through Little Masoala
  • Chapter 2 Intention and Perception
  • Chapter 3 Zooming In on Morality
  • Chapter 4 A Kind of People
  • Chapter 5 The Coconut Schema
  • Extract from ‘Marrakech’ by George Orwell
  • Part II
  • Chapter 6 Living with the Masoala National Park
  • Chapter 7 The Banana Plant and the Moon
  • Chapter 8 The Island of the Wanderer
  • Chapter 9 Who Are ‘They’?
  • Chapter 10 Historical Reflections
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • Index
  • Studies in Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology