Gisli Palsson

Nature, Culture, and Society

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Reflecting upon the changing human condition, Palsson addresses various conflated zones of life at particular times and scales.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 496g
• ISBN-13: 9781107085848
• ISBN-10: 1107085845
• Artikelnr.: 43709095

Autorenporträt

Gisli Palsson is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Iceland and Visiting Professor at King's College London. He has conducted fieldwork in Iceland, Cape Verde, the Canadian Arctic and the Virgin Islands. Palsson has written extensively on topics relating to social, cultural and biological anthropology, including the new genetics, environmental politics and the politics of language.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
Part I. Selves: 2. Spitting image: decode me!
3. Labouring lives: genomic stuff
4. What's in a genome? Indigenous encounters
5. Name talk: technologies of belonging
Part II. Bodies: 6. Human variation: shifting perspectives
7. Nim Chimpsky et al.: human-animal relations
8. Lucy in the sky: celestial bodies
Part III. Biospheres: 9. Enskilment at sea: situated knowledge
10. Environmental relations: political economies
11. Modernity and beyond: the grand aquarium
12. Housekeeping: oikos and the anthropocene
13. Afterword.