Palma Africana
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: May 01, 2018
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780226515946
Description: "Palma africana represents the latest attempt by anthropologist Michael Taussig to make sense of the threat to life, human and nonhuman, that characterizes the contemporary moment. In Colombia, where Taussig has worked for decades, palm oil plantations are spreading in areas that were once cornucopias of animal, bird, and plant life. Deforestation and habitat loss are the first effects."--Provided by publisher.