How Nature Works : Rethinking Labor on a Troubled Planet
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0826360858
ISBN-13
9780826360854
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Imprint
University of New Mexico Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 30th, 2019
Print length
272 Pages
Weight
426 grams
Dimensions
15.40 x 23.10 x 2.60 cms
Product Classification:
Social & cultural anthropology, ethnographySocial and cultural anthropologyThe environment
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Develops an anthropology of labour that is sharply attuned to the irreversible effects of climate change, extinction, and deforestation. The authors push ethnographic inquiry beyond the anthropocentric documentation of human work on nature in order to develop a Language for thinking about how all labour is a collective ecological act.
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.
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