The chicken and the quetzal : incommensurate ontologies and portable values in Guatemala's cloud forest

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The chicken and the quetzal : incommensurate ontologies and portable values in Guatemala's cloud forest

Paul Kockelman

Duke University Press, 2016

  • : hardcover
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-188) and index

収録内容

  • Introdcution : enclosure and disclosure
  • NGOs, ecotourists, and endangered avifauna : immaterial labor, incommensurate values, and intersubjective intentions
  • A Mayan ontology of poultry : selfhood, affect, and animals
  • From reciprocation to replacement : grading use value, labor power, and personhood
  • From measurement to meaning : standardizing and certifying homes and their inhabitance
  • Conclusion : path, portability, and parasites

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内容説明

In The Chicken and the Quetzal Paul Kockelman theorizes the creation, measurement, and capture of value by recounting the cultural history of a village in Guatemala's highland cloud forests and its relation to conservation movements and ecotourism. In 1990 a group of German ecologists founded an NGO to help preserve the habitat of the resplendent quetzal-the strikingly beautiful national bird of Guatemala-near the village of Chicacnab. The ecotourism project they established in Chicacnab was meant to provide new sources of income for its residents so they would abandon farming methods that destroyed quetzal habitat. The pressure on villagers to change their practices created new values and forced negotiations between indigenous worldviews and the conservationists' goals. Kockelman uses this story to offer a sweeping theoretical framework for understanding the entanglement of values as they are interpreted and travel across different and often incommensurate ontological worlds. His theorizations apply widely to studies of the production of value, the changing ways people make value portable, and value's relationship to ontology, affect, and selfhood.

目次

Acknowledgments ix Introduction. Enclosure and Disclosure 1 1. NGOs, Ecotourists, and Endangered Avifauna: Immaterial Labor, Incommensurate Values, and Intersubjective Intentions 13 2. A Mayan Ontology of Poultry: Selfhood, Affect, and Animals 49 3. From Reciprocation to Replacement: Grading Use Value, Labor Power, and Personhood 87 4. From Measurement to Meaning: Standardizing and Certifying Homes and Their Inhabitance 125 Conclusion. Paths, Portability, and Parasites 157 Notes 171 References 177 Index 189

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