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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Roy Ellen , Katsuyoshi FukuiPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.907kg ISBN: 9780367719180ISBN 10: 0367719185 Pages: 688 Publication Date: 31 March 2021 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList of Figures, List of Tables, List of Colour Plates, Preface, 1. Introduction, Part I: Nature as a Cultural Concept, 2. Human Dimensions in the Sound Universe, 3. A Poetics of Place: Ecological and Aesthetic Co-evolution in a Papua New Guinea Rainforest Community, 4. A Church Too Far Near a Bridge Oddly Placed: The Cultural Construction of the Norfolk Countryside, 5. Hunting and Gathering as Ways of Perceiving the Environment, 6. The Invention of Nature, 7. The Concept of Vital Energy Among Andean Pastoralists, Part II: Relations Between Specific Domesticates and Human Populations, 8. Glutinous-Endosperm Starch Food Culture Specific to Eastern and Southeastern Asia, 9. Creating Landrace Diversity: The Case of the Ari People and Ensete (Ensete ventricosum) in Ethiopia, 10. Human Cognition as a Product and Agent of Evolution, 11. Agrarian Creolization: The Ethnobiology, History, Culture and Politics of West African Rice, 12. Co-evolution Between Humans and Domesticates: The Cultural Selection of Animal Coat-Colour Diversity Among the Bodi, 13. Domestic Animal as Serf: Ideologies of Nature in the Mediterranean and the Middle East, 14. Crops, Techniques, and Affordances, 15. Domesticatory Relationships of People, Plants and Animals, Part III: Nature, Co-evolution and the Problem of Cultural Adaptation, 16. The Co-existence of Man and Nature in the African Rain Forest, 17. Image and Reality at Sea: Fish and Cognitive Mapping in Carolinean Navigational Knowledge, 18. Long-term Adaptation of the Gidra-Speaking Population of Papua New Guinea, 19. Nurturing the Forest: Strategies of Native Amazonians, 20. Process Versus Product in Bomean Augury: A 'Ii'aditional Knowledge System's Solution to the Problem of Knowing, 21. Individual Strategy and Cultural Regulation in Nuaulu Hunting, Notes on Contributors, IndexReviews"""The book is the result of a symposium held in Kyoto and Atami during March 1992. Consequently several of the authors summarize mostly their own work [...]. Since a large portion of these publications by the Japanese authors were originally in Japanese, the book also makes the current research in the field of ethnobiology in Japan available to European and American readers. [...] The book is a very interesting and multi-facet contribution to ethnobiology, and cultural anthropology/ethnology and is of interest to all scholars concerned with the nature/culture debate, with cognitive anthropology, and with biological (including ecological) approaches in the field."" --Anthropos ""Redefining Nature therefore provides a thorough examination of issues that are central to environmental anthroplogy and makes a substantial contribution to the debates on them. . .Nature is a thoughtful, in-depth attempt to reconcile cultural and cognitive issues and their agency in the co-evolution of humans and other species. Its detailed and wide-ranging case-studies underscore the complexities of this interaction and provide the reader with some genuine insights into the dynamics of the relationship between humans and the environment."" --Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford (JASO)" The book is the result of a symposium held in Kyoto and Atami during March 1992. Consequently several of the authors summarize mostly their own work [...]. Since a large portion of these publications by the Japanese authors were originally in Japanese, the book also makes the current research in the field of ethnobiology in Japan available to European and American readers. [...] The book is a very interesting and multi-facet contribution to ethnobiology, and cultural anthropology/ethnology and is of interest to all scholars concerned with the nature/culture debate, with cognitive anthropology, and with biological (including ecological) approaches in the field. --Anthropos Redefining Nature therefore provides a thorough examination of issues that are central to environmental anthroplogy and makes a substantial contribution to the debates on them. . .Nature is a thoughtful, in-depth attempt to reconcile cultural and cognitive issues and their agency in the co-evolution of humans and other species. Its detailed and wide-ranging case-studies underscore the complexities of this interaction and provide the reader with some genuine insights into the dynamics of the relationship between humans and the environment. --Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford (JASO) Author InformationRoy Ellen Professor of Anthropology and Human Ecology,University of Kent at Canterbury Katsuyoshi Fukui Professor of Anthropology, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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