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Nature and Society: Anthropological Perspectives.
Abstract
The contributors to this book focus on the relationship between nature and society from a variety of theoretical and ethnographic perspectives. Their work draws upon recent developments in social theory, biology, ethnobiology, epistemology, sociology of science, and a wide array of ethnographic case studies -- from Amazonia, the Solomon Islands, Malaysia, the Mollucan Islands, rural comunities from Japan and north-west Europe, urban Greece, and laboratories of molecular biology and high-energy physics. The discussion is divided into three parts, emphasising the problems posed by the nature-culture dualism, some misguided attempts to respond to these problems, and potential avenues out of the current dilemmas of ecological discourse.
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- Authors
- Williams, D. M., Descola, P., & Palsson, G.
- Venue
- The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
- Publisher
- JSTOR
- Published
- 1998-03
- Volume
- 4
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 138
- ISSN
- 1359-0987 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1972539843
- Cited by
- 344
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 79.21
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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