In the Society of Nature: A Native Ecology in Amazonia (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

In the Society of Nature: A Native Ecology in Amazonia (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology) Book

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.Read More

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  • Book Description

    The author documents the Achuar Indians of the Upper Amazon knowledge of the environment, and explains how it is interwoven with cosmological ideas that endow nature with the characteristics of society.

  • Product Description

    The Achuar Indians of the Upper Amazon have developed sophisticated strategies of resource management. The author documents their knowledge of the environment, and explains how it is interwoven with cosmological ideas that endow nature with the characteristics of society.

  • 0521574676
  • 9780521574679
  • Philippe Descola
  • 29 August 1996
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 396
  • New Ed
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