| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 243 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Accumulating absence : cultural productions of the sixth extinction / Genese Marie Sodikoff -- A species apart : ideology, science, and the end of life / Janet Chernela -- From ecocide to genetic rescue : can technoscience save the wild? / Tracey Heatherington -- Totem and taboo reconsidered : endangered species and moral practice in Madagascar / Genese Marie Sodikoff -- Tortoise soup for the soul : finding a space for human history in evolution's laboratory / Jill Constantino -- Global environmentalism and the emergence of indigeneity : the politics of cultural and biological diversity in China / Michael Hathaway -- Last words, final thoughts : collateral extinctions in Maliseet language death / Bernard C. Perley -- Dying young : Pidgins, Creoles, and other contact languages as endangered languages / Paul B. Garrett -- Demise of the bet hedgers : a case study of human impacts on past and present lemurs of Madagascar / Laurie R. Godfrey and Emilienne Rasoazanabary -- Disappearing wildmen : capture, extirpation, and extinction as regular components of representations of putative hairy hominoids / Gregory Forth -- Epilogue : Prolegomenon for a new totemism / Peter M. Whiteley |
| Summary |
We live in an era marked by an accelerating rate of species death, but since the early days of the discipline, anthropology has contemplated the death of languages, cultural groups, and ways of life. The essays in this collection examine processes of-and our understanding of-extinction across various domains. The contributors argue that extinction events can be catalysts for new cultural, social, environmental, and technological developments-that extinction processes can, paradoxically, be productive as well as destructive. The essays consider a number of widely publicized cases: island specie |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Culture -- Philosophy
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Anthropology -- Philosophy
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Extinction (Biology)
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Extinction (Psychology)
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Anthropological linguistics.
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Extinction, Biological
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Extinction, Psychological
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anthropological linguistics.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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SCIENCE -- Philosophy & Social Aspects.
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Anthropological linguistics
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Anthropology -- Philosophy
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Culture -- Philosophy
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Extinction (Biology)
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Extinction (Psychology)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Sodikoff, Genese Marie, 1966-
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| LC no. |
2011024026 |
| ISBN |
0253005450 |
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9780253005458 |
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9786613528193 |
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6613528196 |
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