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Informationen zum Autor Candace Slater is Marian E. Koshland Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at the University of California, Berkeley. Among her books are Entangled Edens: Visions of the Amazon and Dance of the Dolphin: Transformation and Disenchantment in the Amazonian Imagination. Klappentext ""In Search of the Rain Forest" dissects the multiple meanings and the iconography of tropical nature in a very interesting way. It moves 'rain forest studies' into the realm of cultural critique in a manner that serves important scholarly as well as consciousness-raising ends."--Susanna B. Hecht, coauthor of "The Fate of the Forest: Developers, Destroyers, and Defenders of the Amazon" Zusammenfassung Collects essays that offer important reflections on the image and rhetoric of the rain forest. Attentive to such complexities! this title focuses on specific portrayals of rain forests and the consequences of these representations for both forest inhabitants and outsiders. Inhaltsverzeichnis About the Series vii Acknowledgments ix Mapping Out The Quest In Search of the Rain Forest / Candace Slater 3 Rain Forest Icons Fire in El Dorado, or Images of Tropical Nature and Their Practical Effects / Candace Slater 41 Subterranean Techniques: Corporate Environmentalism, Oil Operations, and Social Injustice in the Ecuadorian Rain Forest / Suzana Sawyer 69 The Voice of Ix Chel: Fashioning Maya Tradition in the Belizean Rain Forest / Alex Greene 101 Rain Forest and Jungle In Search of the Maya Forest / Scott Fedick 133 Spectacles of Wildness Bio-Ironies of the Fractured Forest: India's Tiger Reserves / Paul Greenough 167 Weapons of the Wild: Strategic Uses of Violence and Wildness in the Rain Forests of Indonesian Borneo / Nancy Lee Peluso 204 The Viral Forest in Motion: Ebola, African Forests, and Emerging Cartographies of Environmental Danger / Charles Zerner 246 Afterword: The Ongoing Search 285 Contributors 305 Index 309...
