In the Society of Nature A Native Ecology in Amazonia

Name: In the Society of Nature A Native Ecology in Amazonia
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ISBN: 9780521574679

ISBN-10: 0521574676

ISBN-13: 9780521574679

Edition: 2000

Authors: Philippe Descola, Meyer Fortes, Jack Goody, Edmund Leach, Stanley Tambiah

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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.

Book details

List price: $63.99
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/29/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 396
Size: 5.94" wide x 8.98" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



List of illustrations


List of part title illustrations


Preface


Preface to the English edition


A note on spelling


General introduction


Nature and society: lessons from Amazonia


Achuar and Jivaro: an illusory state of nature



The Sphere of Nature


Introduction I



The territorial space



Landscape and cosmos


Terrestrial water, celestial water


Upstream and down


The cosmos and its markers



Nature's beings


The taxonomic order


The anthropocentric order



On the Proper Use of Nature


Introduction II



The world of the house


Architectonic elements


Symbolic topography of the house


Domestic sociability and its spaces



The world of gardens


Clearing and gardening


Gardening magic



The world of the forest


Foraging techniques


Affinal nature



The world of the river


Fishing techniques


The marital bed



Categories of practice


The quantitative order


The qualitative order



The good life


Underexploitation of resources


Productive efficiency


Conclusion


Notes


References


Subject index


Index of plants and animals