Kockelman Paul Kockelman

Chicken and the Quetzal (eBook, PDF)

Incommensurate Ontologies and Portable Values in Guatemala's Cloud Forest

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Produktbeschreibung

In The Chicken and the Quetzal Paul Kockelman theorizes the creation, measurement, and capture of value by recounting the cultural history of a village in Guatemala's highland cloud forests and its relation to conservation movements and ecotourism. In 1990 a group of German ecologists founded an NGO to help preserve the habitat of the resplendent quetzal-the strikingly beautiful national bird of Guatemala-near the village of Chicacnab. The ecotourism project they established in Chicacnab was meant to provide new sources of income for its residents so they would abandon farming methods that destroyed quetzal habitat. The pressure on villagers to change their practices created new values and forced negotiations between indigenous worldviews and the conservationists' goals. Kockelman uses this story to offer a sweeping theoretical framework for understanding the entanglement of values as they are interpreted and travel across different and often incommensurate ontological worlds. His theorizations apply widely to studies of the production of value, the changing ways people make value portable, and value's relationship to ontology, affect, and selfhood.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822374596
• Artikelnr.: 54782716

Autorenporträt

Paul Kockelman

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. Enclosure and Disclosure  1
1. NGOs, Ecotourists, and Endangered Avifauna: Immaterial Labor,
Incommensurate Values, and Intersubjective Intentions  13
2. A Mayan Ontology of Poultry: Selfhood, Affect, and Animals  49
3. From Reciprocation to Replacement: Grading Use Value, Labor Power, and
Personhood  87
4. From Measurement to Meaning: Standardizing and Certifying Homes and
Their Inhabitance  125
Conclusion. Paths, Portability, and Parasites  157
Notes  171
References  177
Index  189