Overview

We live in an era marked by an accelerating rate of species death, but since the early days of the discipline, anthropology has contemplated the death of languages, cultural groups, and ways of life. The essays in this collection examine processes and understanding of extinction across various domains. The contributors argue that extinction events can be catalysts for new cultural, social, and technological developments—that extinction processes can, paradoxically, be productive as well as destructive.

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Author:   Genese Marie Sodikoff ,  Peter Whiteley ,  Jill Constantino ,  Bernard C. Perley
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.386kg
ISBN:  

9780253223647

ISBN 10:   0253223644
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   08 December 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction: Accumulating Absence—Cultural Productions of the Sixth Extinction \ Genese Marie Sodikoff Part 1. The Social Construction of Biotic Extinction 1. A Species Apart: Ideology, Science, and the End of Life \ Janet Chernela 2. From Ecocide to Genetic Rescue: Can Technoscience Save the Wild? \ Tracey Heatherington 3. Totem and Taboo Reconsidered: Endangered Species and Moral Practice in Madagascar \ Genese Marie Sodikoff Part 2. Endangered Species and Emergent Identities 4. Tortoise Soup for the Soul: Finding a Space for Human History in Evolution's Laboratory \ Jill Constantino 5. Global Environmentalism and the Emergence of Indigeneity: The Politics of Cultural and Biological Diversity in China \ Michael Hathaway Part 3. Red-Listed Languages 6. Last Words, Final Thoughts: Collateral Extinctions in Maliseet Language Death \ Bernard C. Perley 7. Dying Young: Pidgins, Creoles, and Other Contact Languages as Endangered Languages \ Paul B. Garrett Part 4. Prehistories of an Apex Predator 8. Demise of the Bet Hedgers: A Case Study of Human Impacts on Past and Present Lemurs of Madagascar \ Laurie R. Godfrey and Emilienne Rasoazanabary 9. Disappearing Wildmen: Capture, Extirpation, and Extinction as Regular Components of Representations of Putative Hairy Hominoids \ Gregory Forth Epilogue: Prolegomenon for a New Totemism \ Peter M. Whiteley List of Contributors Index

Reviews

[F]ulfills a very important need... It is in keeping with the best and most important aspects of 'posthumanism' and the trend toward questioning the boundaries between human and nonhuman life... [R]eadable and thought-provoking. Molly Mullin, author (with Rebecca Cassidy) Where the Wild Things Are Now: Domestication Reconsidered

[F]ulfills a very important need... It is in keeping with the best and most important aspects of 'posthumanism' and the trend toward questioning the boundaries between human and nonhuman life... [R]eadable and thought-provoking. Molly Mullin, author (with Rebecca Cassidy) Where the Wild Things Are Now: Domestication Reconsidered

Author Information

Genese Marie Sodikoff is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Rutgers University, Newark. She is author of Forest and Labor in Madagascar: From Colonial Concession to Global Biosphere (IUP, 2012).

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