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The notion of Endangerment stands at the heart of a network of
concepts, values and practices dealing with objects and beings
considered threatened by extinction, and with the procedures aimed
at preserving them. Usually animated by a sense of urgency and
citizenship, identifying endangered entities involves evaluating an
impending threat and opens the way for preservation strategies.
Endangerment, Biodiversity and Culture looks at some of the
fundamental ways in which this process involves science, but also
more than science: not only data and knowledge and institutions,
but also affects and values. Focusing on an "endangerment
sensibility," it encapsulates tensions between the normative and
the utilitarian, the natural and the cultural. The chapters situate
that specifically modern sensibility in historical perspective, and
examine central aspects of its recent and present forms.This timely
volume offers the most cutting-edge insights into the Environmental
Humanities for researchers working in Environmental Studies,
History, Anthropology, Sociology and Science and Technology
Studies.
The notion of Endangerment stands at the heart of a network of
concepts, values and practices dealing with objects and beings
considered threatened by extinction, and with the procedures aimed
at preserving them. Usually animated by a sense of urgency and
citizenship, identifying endangered entities involves evaluating an
impending threat and opens the way for preservation strategies.
Endangerment, Biodiversity and Culture looks at some of the
fundamental ways in which this process involves science, but also
more than science: not only data and knowledge and institutions,
but also affects and values. Focusing on an "endangerment
sensibility," it encapsulates tensions between the normative and
the utilitarian, the natural and the cultural. The chapters situate
that specifically modern sensibility in historical perspective, and
examine central aspects of its recent and present forms.This timely
volume offers the most cutting-edge insights into the Environmental
Humanities for researchers working in Environmental Studies,
History, Anthropology, Sociology and Science and Technology
Studies.
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Collecting, Ordering, Governing - Anthropology, Museums, and Liberal Government (Hardcover)
Tony Bennett, Fiona Cameron, Nelia Dias, Ben Dibley, Rodney Harrison, …
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R2,554
Discovery Miles 25 540
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The coauthors of this theoretically innovative work explore the
relationships among anthropological fieldwork, museum collecting
and display, and social governance in the early twentieth century
in Australia, Britain, France, New Zealand, and the United States.
With case studies ranging from the Musee de l'Homme's 1930s
fieldwork missions in French Indo-China to the influence of Franz
Boas's culture concept on the development of American museums, the
authors illuminate recent debates about postwar forms of
multicultural governance, cultural conceptions of difference, and
postcolonial policy and practice in museums. Collecting, Ordering,
Governing is essential reading for scholars and students of
anthropology, museum studies, cultural studies, and indigenous
studies as well as museum and heritage professionals.
The coauthors of this theoretically innovative work explore the
relationships among anthropological fieldwork, museum collecting
and display, and social governance in the early twentieth century
in Australia, Britain, France, New Zealand, and the United States.
With case studies ranging from the Musee de l'Homme's 1930s
fieldwork missions in French Indo-China to the influence of Franz
Boas's culture concept on the development of American museums, the
authors illuminate recent debates about postwar forms of
multicultural governance, cultural conceptions of difference, and
postcolonial policy and practice in museums. Collecting, Ordering,
Governing is essential reading for scholars and students of
anthropology, museum studies, cultural studies, and indigenous
studies as well as museum and heritage professionals.
This study focuses upon the work of the Catalan woman poet
Maria-Merce Marcal. It analyses the interaction between body and
language in her first five books of poetry. Drawing on the Italian
feminist thought of il pensiero della differenza sessuale, it
examines the ways in which Marcal's poetic images display her
Catalan feminine subjectivity, including the function of the poet,
the space of poetry and the representation of love. It also
explores the potentiality of the space of poetry to reconstruct
female identity and reconfigure reality. In addition, it unravels
the way in which the poet uses poetry to express the love for the
other whilst also extending the boundaries of the self. The central
concern is to bridge the fissure between female experience and
universal precepts on the art of poetry through the predominance of
an embodied and natural iconography. This study presents Marcal's
poetic compositions within the international panorama of poetry and
feminist studies and aims to open up new terrains of discussion in
the field of language, body and writing."
This study focuses upon the work of the Catalan woman poet
Maria-Merce Marcal. It analyses the interaction between body and
language in her first five books of poetry. Drawing on the Italian
feminist thought of il pensiero della differenza sessuale, it
examines the ways in which Marcal's poetic images display her
Catalan feminine subjectivity, including the function of the poet,
the space of poetry and the representation of love. It also
explores the potentiality of the space of poetry to reconstruct
female identity and reconfigure reality. In addition, it unravels
the way in which the poet uses poetry to express the love for the
other whilst also extending the boundaries of the self. The central
concern is to bridge the fissure between female experience and
universal precepts on the art of poetry through the predominance of
an embodied and natural iconography. This study presents Marcal's
poetic compositions within the international panorama of poetry and
feminist studies and aims to open up new terrains of discussion in
the field of language, body and writing."
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