""In Search of the Rain Forest" dissects the multiple meanings and the iconography of tropical nature in a very interesting way. It moves 'rain forest studies' into the realm of cultural critique in a manner that serves important scholarly as well as consciousness-raising ends."--Susanna B. Hecht, coauthor of "The Fate of the Forest: Developers, Destroyers, and Defenders of the Amazon"
""In Search of the Rain Forest" dissects the multiple meanings and the iconography of tropical nature in a very interesting way. It moves 'rain forest studies' into the realm of cultural critique in a manner that serves important scholarly as well as consciousness-raising ends."--Susanna B. Hecht, coauthor of "The Fate of the Forest: Developers, Destroyers, and Defenders of the Amazon"Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
About the Series vii Acknowledgments ix Mapping Out The Quest In Search of the Rain Forest / Candace Slater 3 Rain Forest Icons Fire in El Dorado, or Images of Tropical Nature and Their Practical Effects / Candace Slater 41 Subterranean Techniques: Corporate Environmentalism, Oil Operations, and Social Injustice in the Ecuadorian Rain Forest / Suzana Sawyer 69 The Voice of Ix Chel: Fashioning Maya Tradition in the Belizean Rain Forest / Alex Greene 101 Rain Forest and Jungle In Search of the Maya Forest / Scott Fedick 133 Spectacles of Wildness Bio-Ironies of the Fractured Forest: India's Tiger Reserves / Paul Greenough 167 Weapons of the Wild: Strategic Uses of Violence and Wildness in the Rain Forests of Indonesian Borneo / Nancy Lee Peluso 204 The Viral Forest in Motion: Ebola, African Forests, and Emerging Cartographies of Environmental Danger / Charles Zerner 246 Afterword: The Ongoing Search 285 Contributors 305 Index 309
About the Series vii Acknowledgments ix Mapping Out The Quest In Search of the Rain Forest / Candace Slater 3 Rain Forest Icons Fire in El Dorado, or Images of Tropical Nature and Their Practical Effects / Candace Slater 41 Subterranean Techniques: Corporate Environmentalism, Oil Operations, and Social Injustice in the Ecuadorian Rain Forest / Suzana Sawyer 69 The Voice of Ix Chel: Fashioning Maya Tradition in the Belizean Rain Forest / Alex Greene 101 Rain Forest and Jungle In Search of the Maya Forest / Scott Fedick 133 Spectacles of Wildness Bio-Ironies of the Fractured Forest: India's Tiger Reserves / Paul Greenough 167 Weapons of the Wild: Strategic Uses of Violence and Wildness in the Rain Forests of Indonesian Borneo / Nancy Lee Peluso 204 The Viral Forest in Motion: Ebola, African Forests, and Emerging Cartographies of Environmental Danger / Charles Zerner 246 Afterword: The Ongoing Search 285 Contributors 305 Index 309
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