Title: Nature wars : essays around a contested concept /
Authors: Ellen, R. F., 1947-
Year: 2021
Subjects: Nature Effect of human beings on; Ethnoscience; Ethnoscience Indonesia.; Philosophical anthropology; Ethnoecology; Ethnoecology; Ethnoscience; Nature Effect of human beings on; Philosophical anthropology; Indonesia
Abstract: "Organized around issues, debates and discussions concerning the various ways in which the concept of nature has been used, this book looks at how the term has been endlessly deconstructed and reclaimed, as reflected in anthropological, scientific, and similar writing over the last several decades. Made up of ten of Roy Ellen's finest articles, this book looks back at his ideas about nature and includes a new introduction that contextualizes the arguments and takes them forward. Many of the chapters focus on research the author has conducted amongst the Nuaulu people of eastern Indonesia"--
Contents: Nature beyond the 'ontological turn' -- What Black Elk left unsaid -- Comparative natures in Melanesia -- Political Contingency, historical ecology and the renegotiation of nature -- Indigenous environmental knowledge and its transformations -- From ethno-science to science -- Local and scientific understandings of forest diversity -- Why aren't the Nuaulu like the Matsigenka? -- Roots, shoots and leaves: the art of weeding -- Tools, agency and the category of 'living things' -- Is there a role for ontologies in understanding plant knowledge systems?