We now live on a planet that is troubled--even overworked--in ways that compel us to reckon with inherited common sense about the relationship between human labor and nonhuman nature. In Paraguay, fast-growing soy plants are displacing both prior crops and people. In Malaysia, dispossessed farmers are training captive orangutans to earn their own meals.
In India, a Prized dairy cow suddenly refuses to give more milk. Built from these sorts of scenes and sites, where the ultimate Subjects and agents of work are ambiguous, How Nature Works develops an anthropology of labor that is sharply attuned to the irreversible effects of climate change, extinction, and deforestation. The authors of this volume push ethnographic inquiry beyond the anthropocentric documentation of human work on nature in order to develop a Language for thinking about how all labor is a collective ecological act.
| ISBN: | 9780826360854 |
| Publication date: | 15th October 2019 |
| Author: | Sarah Besky, Alex Blanchette |
| Publisher: | University of New Mexico Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 272 pages |
| Series: | School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series |
| Genres: |
Social and cultural anthropology The environment |
We now live on a planet that is troubled--even overworked--in ways that compel us to reckon with inherited common sense about the relationship between human labor and nonhuman nature. In Paraguay, fast-growing soy plants are displacing both prior crops and people.
How Nature Works features in the following genres: Social and cultural anthropology, The environment
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How Nature Works was written by Sarah Besky, Alex Blanchette and published by University of New Mexico Press
How Nature Works has 272 pages
Yes it is part of School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series series
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