Fukushima Futures

Satsuki Takahashi

• Paperback | Engels | Culture, Place, and Nature
• A probe of the environmental and sociocultural effects of industrialization and nuclear disaster on coastal livelihoods Both before and after the 2011... Lees meer

Conjuring Property

Jeremy M Campbell

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture, Place, and Nature
• Winner of the 2017 James M. Blaut Award from the Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers Honorable M... Lees meer

Turning Land Into Capital

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture, Place, and Nature
• In Southeast Asia reversals of earlier agrarian reforms have rolled back "land-to-the-tiller" policies created in the wake of Cold War-era revolutions... Lees meer

Turning Land Into Capital

• Paperback | Engels | Culture, Place, and Nature
• In Southeast Asia reversals of earlier agrarian reforms have rolled back "land-to-the-tiller" policies created in the wake of Cold War-era revolutions... Lees meer

Tahiti Beyond the Postcard

Miriam Kahn

• Paperback | Engels | Culture, Place, and Nature
• Winner of the 2013 ICAS Book Prize (Social Sciences) The "Tahiti" that most people imagine - white-sand beaches, turquoise lagoons, and beautiful wome... Lees meer

Sustaining Natures

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture, Place, and Nature
• Highlights new directions in the field and topics of interest to undergraduate students Environmental anthropology is at its best when firmly grounded... Lees meer

Caring for Glaciers

Karine Gagné

• Paperback | Engels | Culture, Place, and Nature
• Regional geopolitical processes have turned the Himalayan region of Ladakh, in northwest India, into a strategic border area with an increasing milita... Lees meer

Living with Oil and Coal

Dolly Kikon

• Paperback | Engels | Culture, Place, and Nature
• The nineteenth-century discovery of oil in the eastern Himalayan foothills, together with the establishment of tea plantations and other extractive in... Lees meer

Sustaining Natures

• Paperback | Engels | Culture, Place, and Nature
• Highlights new directions in the field and topics of interest to undergraduate students Environmental anthropology is at its best when firmly grounded... Lees meer

Misreading the Bengal Delta

Camelia Dewan

• Paperback | Engels | Culture, Place, and Nature
• An unexpected story of climate change initiatives that threaten a complex waterscape Perilously close to sea level and vulnerable to floods, erosion, ... Lees meer

Ecologies of Empire in South Asia, 1400-1900

Sumit Guha

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture, Place, and Nature
• Reveals how imperial power and local resistance have shaped landscapes The perception, valuation, and manipulation of human environments all have thei... Lees meer

Ordering the Myriad Things

Nicholas K Menzies

• Paperback | Engels | Culture, Place, and Nature
• Longlisted for the 2024 SHNH Natural History Book Prize An exploration of plant wisdom, from the Southern Mountain Tea Flower to the Dawn Redwood Chin... Lees meer

Working with the Ancestors

Emily C Donaldson

• Paperback | Engels | Culture, Place, and Nature
• Throughout the Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia, forest spirits share space with ancestral ruins and active agricultural plots, affecting land us... Lees meer

China's Camel Country

Thomas White

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture, Place, and Nature
• How animal conservation became a defense against cultural erasure China today positions itself as a model of state-led environmentalism. On the countr... Lees meer

Roses from Kenya

Megan A Styles

• Paperback | Engels | Culture, Place, and Nature
• Honorable Mention for the Society for the Anthropology of Work (SAW) Book prize The potential of floriculture grows at Lake Naivasha Kenya supplies mo... Lees meer

Being and Place among the Tlingit

Thomas F Thornton

• Paperback | Engels | Culture, Place, and Nature
• In Being and Place among the Tlingit, anthropologist Thomas F. Thornton examines the concept of place in the language, social structure, economy, and ... Lees meer

Upland Geopolitics

Michael B Dwyer

• Paperback | Engels | Culture, Place, and Nature
• Cold War legacies in Southeast Asia enable new geographies of enclosure In the twenty-first century, land deals in the Global South have become increa... Lees meer

Forest Guardians, Forest Destroyers

Tim Forsyth, Andrew Walker

• Paperback | Engels | Culture, Place, and Nature
• In this far-reaching examination of environmental problems and politics in northern Thailand, Tim Forsyth and Andrew Walker analyze deforestation, wat... Lees meer

Nature Protests

Edward K Snajdr

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture, Place, and Nature
• As societies around the world are challenged to respond to ever growing environmental crises, it has become increasingly important for activists, poli... Lees meer

Forests Are Gold

Pamela D McElwee

• Paperback | Engels | Culture, Place, and Nature
• Forests Are Gold examines the management of Vietnam's forests in the tumultuous twentieth century--from French colonialism to the recent transition to... Lees meer

Puer Tea

Jinghong Zhang

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture, Place, and Nature
• Puer tea has been grown for centuries in the "Six Great Tea Mountains" of Yunnan Province, and in imperial China it was a prized commodity, traded to ... Lees meer

China's Camel Country

Thomas White

• Paperback | Engels | Culture, Place, and Nature
• How animal conservation became a defense against cultural erasure China today positions itself as a model of state-led environmentalism. On the countr... Lees meer

The Snow Leopard and the Goat

Shafqat Hussain

• Paperback | Engels | Culture, Place, and Nature
• Who should bear the cost of protecting charismatic wildlife? Following the downgrading of the snow leopard's status from "endangered" to "vulnerable" ... Lees meer

The Camphor Tree and the Elephant

Faizah Zakaria

• Paperback | Engels | Culture, Place, and Nature
• Uncovers a spiritual dimension in the transition to the Anthropocene What is the role of religion in shaping interactions and relations between the hu... Lees meer