Progress of the Victims: Political Ecology in the Peruvian Amazon

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. About the Series ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction
6. 3 Reimagining Political Ecology: Culture/Power/History/Nature 3
7. Beyond modernist ecologies
8. Equilibrium Theory and Interdisciplinary Borrowing: A Comparison of Old and New Ecological Anthropologies 43
9. Nature and Society in the Age of Postmodernity 70
10. Constructing and appropriating nature
11. Ecopolitics through Ethnography: The Cultures of Finland’s Forest-Nature 97
12. The Political Ecology of Fisheries in the Upper Gulf of California 121
13. ‘‘But the Young Men Don’tWant to Farm Any More’’: Political Ecology and Consumer Culture in Belize 149
14. Properties of Nature, Properties of Culture: Ownership, Recognition, and the Politics of Nature in a Papua New Guinea Society 171
15. Ethnographies of nature
16. Progress of the Victims: Political Ecology in the Peruvian Amazon 195
17. Red River, GreenWar: The Politics of Place along the Porgera River 241
18. Between Politics and Poetics: Narratives of Dispossession in Sarawak, East Malaysia 289
19. Between nature and culture
20. Rappaport’s Rose: Structure, Agency, and Historical Contingency in Ecological Anthropology 333
21. Works Cited 367
22. Contributors 415
23. Index 417