Shared concern for nature can be a way of transcending national,
ethnic, religious, and cultural boundaries, yet conservation
efforts often pit the interests of historically rooted or
indigenous peoples against the state and international
environmental organizations, eroding local autonomy while "saving"
rural land for animals and tourists. Wild Sardinia's examination of
the cultural politics around nature conservation and the
traditional Commons on an Italian island illustrates the
complexities of environmental stewardship. Long known as the home
of fiercely independent shepherds (often typecast as rustics,
bandits, or eco-vandals), as well as wild mouflon sheep,
magnificent eagles, and rare old oak forests, the town of Orgosolo
has for several decades received notoriety through local opposition
to Gennargentu National Park. --Interweaving rich ethnographic
description of highland central Sardinia with analysis grounded in
political ecology and reflexive cultural critique, Wild Sardinia
illuminates the ambivalent and open-ended meanings of many
Sardinians' acts and memories of "resistance" to environmental
projects. This groundbreaking case study of the tension between
living cultural landscapes and the emerging ecological imaginaries
envisioned through policy discourses and new media -- the "global
dreamtimes of environmentalism" -- has relevance far beyond its
Mediterranean locale.---Tracey Heatherington is associate professor
of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.--"A
wonderful ethnographic book that locates Sardinia directly within
contemporary questions of environmentalism, rights, and justice. It
is superbly written, eloquently argued, and a pleasure to
read."-Paige West, Barnard College, Columbia University, and
American Museum of Natural History--"A fine contribution to the
anthropology of the Mediterranean and to environmental
anthropology, it also makes a useful contribution to the
anthropology of resistance and political activism, successfully
nuancing an account of resistance, to point out the complexities of
gender, religious, and class identities as they feed into
activism."-- -Jon P. Mitchell, University of Sussex
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