In the society of nature : a native ecology in Amazonia
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In the society of nature : a native ecology in Amazonia
（Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology, 93）
Cambridge University Press, 1994
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La nature domestique
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityグローバル専攻
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Research Institute for Economics & Business Administration (RIEB) Library , Kobe University図書
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-354) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Achuar Indians live in the remote forest reaches of the Upper Amazon and have developed sophisticated strategies of resource management. Philippe Descola, who has gathered material over several years of fieldwork, documents their rich knowledge of the environment. He explains how this technical knowledge of the increasingly threatened Amazonian ecosystems is interwoven with cosmological ideas that endow nature with the characteristics of society. Combining a symbolist approach with an ecological analysis, the book contributes a new theory of the social construction of nature.
Table of Contents
- General introduction
- Part I. The Sphere of Nature: 1. The territorial space
- 2. Landscape and cosmos
- 3. Nature's beings
- Part II. On the Proper Use of Nature: 4. The world of the house
- 5. The world of gardens
- 6. The world of the forest
- 7. The world of the river
- 8. Categories of practice
- 9. The good life
- Conclusion.
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