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A Native Ecology in Amazonia

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Hardcover | 16 May 1994

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The Achuar Indians live in the remote forest reaches of the Upper Amazon and have developed sophisticated strategies of resource management. Philippe Descola, who has gathered material over several years of fieldwork, documents their rich knowledge of the environment. He explains how this technical knowledge of the increasingly threatened Amazonian ecosystems is interwoven with cosmological ideas that endow nature with the characteristics of society. Combining a symbolist approach with an ecological analysis, the book contributes a new theory of the social construction of nature.

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' ... an historical and ethnographic contribution to the study of a particularly important area of the New World, at the hinge of Amazonian and Andean high cultures. It is also ... of undoubted theoretical and methodological value, one that directs anthropological thought in new directions.' Claude Levi-Strauss

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List of illustrations	p. ix
List of part title illustrations	p. xi
Preface	p. xii
Preface to the English edition	p. xvii
A note on spelling	p. xviii
General introduction	p. 1
Nature and society: lessons from Amazonia	p. 1
Achuar and Jivaro: an illusory state of nature	p. 7
The Sphere of Nature
Introduction I	p. 15
The territorial space	p. 20
Landscape and cosmos	p. 36
Terrestrial water, celestial water	p. 36
Upstream and down	p. 53
The cosmos and its markers	p. 62
Nature's beings	p. 77
The taxonomic order	p. 78
The anthropocentric order	p. 93
On the Proper Use of Nature
Introduction II	p. 105
The world of the house	p. 108
Architectonic elements	p. 110
Symbolic topography of the house	p. 118
Domestic sociability and its spaces	p. 125
The world of gardens	p. 136
Clearing and gardening	p. 137
Gardening magic	p. 191
The world of the forest	p. 221
Foraging techniques	p. 222
Affinal nature	p. 257
The world of the river	p. 270
Fishing techniques	p. 271
The marital bed	p. 279
Categories of practice	p. 284
The quantitative order	p. 286
The qualitative order	p. 296
The good life	p. 308
Underexploitation of resources	p. 309
Productive efficiency	p. 313
Conclusion	p. 323
Notes	p. 332
References	p. 345
Subject index	p. 355
Index of plants and animals	p. 362
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