Wild Sardinia : indigeneity and the global dreamtimes of environmentalism
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Wild Sardinia : indigeneity and the global dreamtimes of environmentalism
（Culture, place, and nature）（A McLellan book）
University of Washington Press, c2010
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-303) and index
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**Winner of the 2010 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, presented by the American Anthropological Association**
Shared concern for nature can be a way of transcending national, ethnic, religious, and cultural boundaries, yet conservation efforts often pit the interests of historically rooted or indigenous peoples against the state and international environmental organizations, eroding local autonomy while "saving" rural land for animals and tourists. Wild Sardinia's examination of the cultural politics around nature conservation and the traditional Commons on an Italian island illustrates the complexities of environmental stewardship. Long known as the home of fiercely independent shepherds (often typecast as rustics, bandits, or eco-vandals), as well as wild mouflon sheep, magnificent eagles, and rare old oak forests, the town of Orgosolo has for several decades received notoriety through local opposition to Gennargentu National Park.
Interweaving rich ethnographic description of highland central Sardinia with analysis grounded in political ecology and reflexive cultural critique, Wild Sardinia illuminates the ambivalent and open-ended meanings of many Sardinians' acts and memories of "resistance" to environmental projects. This groundbreaking case study of the tension between living cultural landscapes and the emerging ecological imaginaries envisioned through policy discourses and new media -- the "global dreamtimes of environmentalism" -- has relevance far beyond its Mediterranean locale.
Table of Contents
Foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan
Preface and Acknowledgments
Part One: Beginnings
Introduction
1. Ecology, Alterity, and Resistance
Part Two: Ecology
2. Envisioning the Supramonte
3. Intimate Landscapes
Part Three: Alterity
4. Dark Frontier
5. Seeing Like a State, Seeing Like an ENGO
Part Four: Resistance
6. Walking in Via Gramsci
7. Sin, Shame, and Sheep
Part Five: Post-Environmentalisms
8. Beyond Ethnographic Refusal
9. Hope and Mischief in the Global Dreamtimes
Appendix: List of Acronyms
Notes
Glossary of Italian and Sardinian Words
References
Index
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