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Bitter Shade
The Ecological Challenge of Human Consciousness
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English
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2021
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A seminal anthropological work on the age-old question of the paradoxical relationship between human consciousness and the environment
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Michael R. Dove is Margaret K. Musser Professor of Social Ecology in the Yale School of the Environment, professor of anthropology, and curator in the Peabody Museum of Natural History. His previous books include The Banana Tree at the Gate and Climate Cultures.
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Contents
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Preface
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction. Nonhumans and the Paradox of the Human
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Chapter 1. Pig-Humans and Human-Pigs: Perspectivism in Dayak Myth and Ritual
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Chapter 2. Environmental Uncertainty and Augural Contingency
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Chapter 3. A Non-Western Panopticon: The Yogyakarta Sultanate and Merapi Volcano
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Chapter 4. “Bitter Shade”: Signs and Things in Pakistani Agro-Forestry
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Chapter 5. Culture, Agriculture, and Politics of Rice in Java
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Chapter 6. Historic Parting of the Wild from the Civilized in Pakistan
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Chapter 7. Ritual, Myth, and the Rise of “Greedy Rice”
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Chapter 8. Weedy Signs of Intent and Error
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Epilogue. Seeing “Life Itself ”
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Appendix: Principles of Augural Interpretation
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Notes
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References
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Credits
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Index
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9780300258073
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