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Amphibious Anthropologies - Living In Wet Environments

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 Muddying the divide between land and waterThis interdisciplinary collection delves into the experiences and meanings of life in environments where water levels and availability are in constant flux.
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Crafting A Tibetan Terroir - Winemaking In Shangri-La

by Brendan A. (Lecturer, Binghamton University) Galipeau

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 This book considers how the French notion of terroir works to create ethno-regional identities and village landscapes through the production of Tibetan wine. It provides timely insight into China's entry into the wine market, highlighting the localized impacts of this industry, which include transformation from subsistence agriculture to agrochemical use.
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Upland Geopolitics - Postwar Laos And The Global Land Rush

by Michael B. (Visiting Assistant Professor Of Geography, Indiana University Bloomington) Dwyer

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 Winner of the 2024 EuroSEAS Social Science Book PrizeCold War legacies in Southeast Asia enable new geographies of enclosureIn the twenty-first century, land deals in the Global South have become increasingly prevalent and controversial.
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Puer Tea - Ancient Caravans And Urban Chic

by Jinghong (Associate Professor, Southern University Of Science And Technology And) Zhang

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 Puer tea has been grown for centuries in the â€œSix Great Tea Mountainsâ€ of Yunnan Province, and in imperial China it was a prized commodity, traded to Tibet by horse or mule caravan via the so-called Tea Horse Road and presented as tribute to the emperor in Beijing.
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Possessed Landscapes - Experiments In Conservation And Sovereignty In Southeast Myanmar

by Tomas (Postdoctorial Fellow, Stockholm University) Cole

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China'S Camel Country - Livestock And Nation-Building At A Pastoral Frontier

by Thomas (University Lecturer, Kingâ€™S College London And University Of Cambridge) White

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Ordering The Myriad Things - From Traditional Knowledge To Scientific Botany In China

by Nicholas K. Menzies

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Mapping Water In Dominica - Enslavement And Environment Under Colonialism

by Mark W. (Associate Professor Of Anthropology, Northwestern University) Hauser

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Amphibious Anthropologies - Living In Wet Environments

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 Muddying the divide between land and waterThis interdisciplinary collection delves into the experiences and meanings of life in environments where water levels and availability are in constant flux.
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Possessed Landscapes - Experiments In Conservation And Sovereignty In Southeast Myanmar

by Tomas (Postdoctorial Fellow, Stockholm University) Cole

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Crafting A Tibetan Terroir - Winemaking In Shangri-La

by Brendan A. Galipeau

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 How wine has transformed Tibetan land and lives Set in the Sino-Tibetan border region renamed "Shangri-La" by the Chinese government for tourism promotion, Crafting a Tibetan Terroir considers how the deployment of the French notion of terroir works to create new forms of ethno-regional identities and village landscapes through the production of Tibetan wine as a commodity. In Shangri-La, a rapidly developing international ethno-travel destination, European histories and global capitalism are being reestablished and reformulated through viticulture, which has altered landscapes and livelihoods. From the introduction of vineyards by nineteenth-century French and Swiss Catholic missionaries to make sacramental wine to twenty-first century commercialization, this ethnography documents the ways Tibetans are indigenizing modernity in the context of economic development on their own terms. It provides timely insight into China's rapid entry into the global wine market, highlighting the localized impacts of this emergent industry, which include transformation from subsistence agriculture to monocropping and intensified agrochemical use. It also addresses larger issues of international trade, suggesting that certain commodities—stimulants and intoxicants in particular—have long connected Europe and the Asia Pacific region, and that these connections are now being reconceived in fashioning new industries and identities.
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Amphibious Anthropologies - Living In Wet Environments

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 Muddying the divide between land and waterThis interdisciplinary collection delves into the experiences and meanings of life in environments where water levels and availability are in constant flux.
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Viable Ecologies - Conservation And Coexistence On The Galápagos Islands

by Paolo Bocci

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 How humans living amid an abundance of diverse flora and fauna help us rethink conservationFamous for their geographic isolation and high proportion of endemic species, the GalÃ¡pagos Islands have long been promoted as the premier destination for tourists and scientists seeking to escape humanity's impact on the world.
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China'S Camel Country - Livestock And Nation-Building At A Pastoral Frontier

by Thomas White

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 How animal conservation became a defense against cultural erasure China today positions itself as a model of state-led environmentalism. On the country’s arid rangelands, grassland conservation policies have targeted pastoralists and their animals, blamed for causing desertification. State environmentalism—in the form of grazing bans, enclosure, and resettlement—has transformed the lives of many ethnic minority herders in China’s western borderlands. However, this book shows how such policies have been contested and negotiated on the ground, in the context of the state’s intensifying nation-building project. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Alasha, in the far west of China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Thomas White describes how ethnic Mongols have foregrounded the local breed of Bactrian camel, mobilizing ideas of heritage and resource conservation to defend pastoralism. In exploring how the greening of the Chinese state affects the entangled lives of humans and animals at the margins of the nation-state, this study is both a political biography of the Bactrian camel and an innovative work of political ecology addressing critical questions of rural livelihoods, conservation, and state power.
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Viable Ecologies - Conservation And Coexistence On The Galapagos Islands

by Paolo Bocci

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 How humans living amid an abundance of diverse flora and fauna help us rethink conservationFamous for their geographic isolation and high proportion of endemic species, the GalÃ¡pagos Islands have long been promoted as the premier destination for tourists and scientists seeking to escape humanity's impact on the world.
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Viable Ecologies - Conservation And Coexistence On The Galapagos Islands

by Paolo Bocci

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 How humans living amid an abundance of diverse flora and fauna help us rethink conservationFamous for their geographic isolation and high proportion of endemic species, the GalÃ¡pagos Islands have long been promoted as the premier destination for tourists and scientists seeking to escape humanity's impact on the world.
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Crafting A Tibetan Terroir - Winemaking In Shangri-La

by Brendan A. (Lecturer, Binghamton University) Galipeau

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China'S Camel Country - Livestock And Nation-Building At A Pastoral Frontier

by Thomas (University Lecturer, Kingâ€™S College London And University Of Cambridge) White

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Ecologies Of Empire In South Asia, 1400-1900

by Sumit Guha

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 Reveals how imperial power and local resistance have shaped landscapes The perception, valuation, and manipulation of human environments all have their own layered histories. So Sumit Guha argues in this sweeping examination of a pivotal five hundred years when successive empires struggled to harness lands and peoples to their agendas across Asia. Ecologies of Empire in South Asia, 1400–1900 compares the practices of the Mughal and British Empires to demonstrate how their fluctuating capacity for domination was imbricated in the formation of environmental knowledge itself. The establishment of imperial control transforms local knowledge of the world into the aggregated information that reproduces centralized power over it. That is the political ecology that reshapes entire biomes. Animals and plants are translocated; human communities are displaced or destroyed. Some species proliferate; others disappear. But these state projects are overlaid upon the many local and regional geographies made by sacred cosmologies and local sites, pilgrimage routes and river fords, hot springs and fluctuating aquifers, hunting ranges and nesting grounds, notable trees and striking rocks. Guha uncovers these ecological histories by scrutinizing little-used archival sources. His historically based political ecology demonstrates how the biomes of a vast subcontinent were changed by struggles to make and to resist empire.
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Fukushima Futures - Survival Stories In A Repeatedly Ruined Seascape

by Satsuki Takahashi

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 A probe of the environmental and sociocultural effects of industrialization and nuclear disaster on coastal livelihoods Both before and after the 2011 "Triple Disaster" of earthquake, tidal wave, and consequent meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, anthropologist Satsuki Takahashi visited nearby communities, collecting accounts of life and livelihoods along the industrialized seascape. The resulting environmental ethnography examines the complex relationship between commercial fishing families and the Joban Sea—once known for premium-quality fish and now notorious as the location of the world's worst nuclear catastrophe. Fukushima Futures follows postwar Japan's maritime modernization from the perspectives of those most entangled with its successes and failures. In response to unrelenting setbacks, including an earlier nuclear accident at neighboring Tokaimura and the oil spills of stranded tankers during typhoons, these communities have developed survival strategies shaped by the precarity they share with their marine ecosystem. The collaborative resilience that emerges against this backdrop of vulnerability and uncertainty challenges the progress-bound logic of futurism, bringing more hopeful possibilities for the future into sharper focus.
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Sustaining Natures - An Environmental Anthropology Reader

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 Highlights new directions in the field and topics of interest to undergraduate studentsEnvironmental anthropology is at its best when firmly grounded in respectful and systematic ethnographic research and writing that spotlights uncommon perspectives on widely recognized issues confronting the world.
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Ecologies Of Empire In South Asia, 1400-1900

by Sumit (Professor Of History And And And, University Of Texas At Austin) Guha

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Ecologies Of Empire In South Asia, 1400-1900

by Sumit (Professor Of History And And And, University Of Texas At Austin) Guha

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Good Formulas - Empirical Evidence In Mid-Imperial Chinese Medical Texts

by Ruth Yun-Ju (Assistant Research Fellow, Institute Of History And Philology, Academia Sinica) Chen

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 How early print culture reshaped strategies for presenting medical knowledgeWhy and how did the strategy of documenting medical practices through personal experience rise to prominence in China?
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