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Introducing the study of econostalgias through a variety of rich ethnographic cases, this volume argues that a strictly human centered approach does not account for contemporary longings triggered by ecosystem upheavals. In this time of climate change, this book explores how nostalgia for fading ecologies unfolds into the interstitial spaces between the biological, the political and the social, regret and hope, the past, the present and the future.
List of contents
List of Figures and Maps
Acknowledgements
Introduction Olivia Angé and David Berliner Chapter 1. Thinking Through Nostalgia in Anthropologies of the Environment and Ethnographies of Landscape
Roy Ellen Chapter 2. High Arctic Nostalgia: Thule and the Ecology of Mind
Kirsten Hastrup Chapter 3. Nostalgic Confessions in the French Cévennes: Politics of Longings in the Neo-Peasants Initiatives
Madeleine Sallustio Chapter 4. The Nature of Loss: Ecological Nostalgia and Cultural Politics in Amazonia
Casey High Chapter 5. Ecological Nostalgias and Interspecies Affect in the Highland Potato Fields of Cuzco (Peru)
Olivia Angé Chapter 6. The Village and the Hamlet in the Mixe Highlands of Oaxaca, Mexico: Nostalgic Commitments to Working and Living Together
Perig Pitrou Chapter 7. Peaceful Countryside: Ecologies of Longing and the Temporality of Flux in Contemporary Mongolia
Richard D.G. Irvine Chapter 8. Melt in the Future Subjunctive
Cymene Howe Afterword Dominic Boyer Index
About the author
Olivia Angé is a Professor of Anthropology at Université Libre de Bruxelles. Besides a series of papers, she is the author of Barter and Social Regeneration in the Argentinean Andes (Berghahn, 2018), and co-editor of Anthropology and Nostalgia (Berghahn, 2014).
David Berliner is a Professor of Anthropology at Université Libre de Bruxelles. He is the co-editor of Learning Religion (Berghahn, 2007), Anthropology and Nostalgia (Berghahn, 2014) and World Heritage on the Ground (Berghahn, 2016).
Summary
Introducing the study of econostalgias through a variety of rich ethnographic cases, this volume argues that a strictly human centered approach does not account for contemporary longings triggered by ecosystem upheavals.
