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The anthropology of sustainability : beyond development and progress / edited by Marc Brightman, Jerome Lewis.

Contributor(s): Brightman, Marc [editor] | Lewis, Jerome [editor]Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: English Series: Palgrave studies in anthropology of sustainabilityPublication details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017Description: xviii, 316 p. : ill. [col] ; 22 cmISBN: 9781349934416 :Subject(s): Sustainability -- Social aspects | Anthropology | Sustainable developmentDDC classification: 338.927
Contents:
1. Introduction: The Anthropology of Sustainability 2. Anthropology at the Time of the Anthropocene: A Personal View of What is to be Studied 3. A Threat to Holocene Resurgence is a Threat to Livability4. What can Sustainability do for Anthropology? 5. Interlude: Perceiving Human Nature through Imagined Non-Human Situations 6. 'They call it Shangri-La': Sustainable Conservation, or African Enclosures? 7. Conservation From Above: Globalising Care for Nature 8. Different Knowledge Regimes and some Consequences for "Sustainability" 9. The Viability of a High Arctic Hunting Community: A Historical Perspective10. Ebola in Meliandou: Tropes of "Sustainability" at Ground Zero11. Anthropology and The Nature-Society-Development Nexus 12. The Gaia Complex: Ethical Challenges to an Anthropocentric "Common Future"13. Interlude: Performing Gaia 14. Sustaining the Pluriverse: The Political Ontology of Territorial Struggles in Latin America 15. Traditional People, Collectors of Diversity 16. Local Struggles with Entropy: Caipora and Other Demons 17. Redesigning Money to Curb Globalization: Can We Domesticate the Root of All Evil?.
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Includes references and index.

1. Introduction: The Anthropology of Sustainability 2. Anthropology at the Time of the Anthropocene: A Personal View of What is to be Studied 3. A Threat to Holocene Resurgence is a Threat to Livability4. What can Sustainability do for Anthropology? 5. Interlude: Perceiving Human Nature through Imagined Non-Human Situations 6. 'They call it Shangri-La': Sustainable Conservation, or African Enclosures? 7. Conservation From Above: Globalising Care for Nature 8. Different Knowledge Regimes and some Consequences for "Sustainability" 9. The Viability of a High Arctic Hunting Community: A Historical Perspective10. Ebola in Meliandou: Tropes of "Sustainability" at Ground Zero11. Anthropology and The Nature-Society-Development Nexus 12. The Gaia Complex: Ethical Challenges to an Anthropocentric "Common Future"13. Interlude: Performing Gaia 14. Sustaining the Pluriverse: The Political Ontology of Territorial Struggles in Latin America 15. Traditional People, Collectors of Diversity 16. Local Struggles with Entropy: Caipora and Other Demons 17. Redesigning Money to Curb Globalization: Can We Domesticate the Root of All Evil?.

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