Candace Slater

In Search of the Rain Forest

Herausgeber: Slater, Candace

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Collection of essays offers a multi-layered understanding of the social complexities of rainforest practice and representation, .

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 162mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780822332053
• ISBN-10: 0822332051
• Artikelnr.: 22473618

Autorenporträt

Candace Slater, ed.

Inhaltsangabe

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