In the society of nature : a native ecology in Amazonia

Philippe Descola, NoraScott Kinzer, 著FortesMeyer, 著ほか

The Achuar Indians live in the remote forest reaches of the Upper Amazon and have developed sophisticated strategies of resource management. Philippe Descola, who has gathered material over several years of fieldwork, documents their rich knowledge of the environment. He explains how this technical knowledge of the increasingly threatened Amazonian ecosystems is interwoven with cosmological ideas that endow nature with the characteristics of society. Combining a symbolist approach with an ecological analysis, the book contributes a new theory of the social construction of nature.

出版社

Cambridge University Press

発売日

1996-01-01

ISBN

9780521574679