The Social Life of Trees (eBook, ePUB)

Anthropological Perspectives on Tree Symbolism
Redaktion: Rival, Laura

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The passionate response of the British public to the Newbury Bypass is a revealing measure of how strongly people feel about trees and the environment.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000324181
• Artikelnr.: 61311888

Autorenporträt

Laura Rival Queen Elizabeth House International Development Centre,University of Oxford

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
1. Trees
from Symbols of Life and Regeneration to Political Artefacts
Part I. Why Trees Are Good to Think
2. Why Trees
Too
Are Good to Think With: Towards an Anthropology of the Meaning of Life
3. Palms and the Prototypicality of Trees: Some Questions Concerning Assumptions in the Comparative Study of Categories and Labels
4. Trees of Knowledge of Self and Other in Culture: On Models for the Moral Imagination
Part II: Trees
Human Life and the Continuity of Communities
5. Trees and People: Some Vital Links. Tree Products and Other Agents in the Life Cycle of the Ankave-Anga of Papua New Guinea
6. The Coconut
the Body and the Human Being. Metaphors of Life and Growth in Nusa Penida and Bali
7. 'May Blessings Come
May Mischiefs Go!' Living Kinds as Agents of Transitions and Transformation in an Eastern Indonesian Setting
8. 'The Grove is Our Temple'. Contested Representations of Kaavu in Kerala
South India
9. The Second Life of Trees: Family Forestry in Upland Japan
Part III: Woods
Forests and Politics
10. Grassroots Campaigning for the World's Forests
11. Northwest Coast Trees: From Metaphors in Culture to Symbols for Culture
12. Representatives of the Past: Trees in Historical Dispute and Socialised Ecology in the Forest Zone of the Republic of Guinea
West Africa
13. Modern Forestry: Trees and Development Spaces in South-west Bengal
India
Postface
14. Postface: The Life of Trees
Notes on Contributors
Index