Made up of 10 of Roy Ellen's finest articles along with a new introduction linking them together, this book looks back at his ideas about nature before taking the arguments forward. Many of the chapters focus on research the author has conducted amongst the Nuaulu people of eastern Indonesia.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Note on Orthography
Introduction: Nature Beyond the 'Ontological Turn'
Chapter 1. What Black Elk Left Unsaid
Chapter 2. Comparative Natures in Melanesia
Chapter 3. Political Contingency, Historical Ecology, and the Renegotiation of Nature
Appendix: The Consequences of Deforestation - A Nuaulu Text from Rouhua Seram 1994
Chapter 4. Indigenous Environmental Knowledge and its Transformations
Chapter 5. From Ethno-science to Science
Chapter 6. Local and Scientific Understandings of Forest Diversity
Chapter 7. Why Aren't the Nuaulu Like the Matsigenka?
Chapter 8. Roots, Shoots and Leaves - The Art of Weeding
Chapter 9. Tools, Agency and the Category of 'Living Things'
Chapter 10. Is There a Role for Ontologies in Understanding Plant Knowledge Systems?
References
Index
