Nature Wars : : Essays Around a Contested Concept / / Roy Ellen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Ellen, Roy,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology ; 27
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (308 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Orthography -- Introduction. Nature Beyond the ‘Ontological Turn’ -- 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: The Art of Weeding -- 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