Reimagining Political Ecology

About the Series ix Acknowledgments xi INTRODUCTION Reimagining Political Ecology: Culture/Power/History/Nature 3(40) Aletta Biersack BEYOND MODERNIST ECOLOGIES Equilibrium Theory and Interdisciplinary Borrowing: A Comparison of Old and New Ecological Anthropologies 43(27) Michael R. Dove Nature and Society in the Age of Postmodernity 70(27) Gisli P son CONSTRUCTING AND APPROPRIATING NATURE Ecopolitics through Ethnography: The Cultures of Finland's Forest-Nature 97(24) Eeva Berglund The Political Ecology of Fisheries in the Upper Gulf of California 121(28) James B. Greenberg "But the Young Men Don't Want to Farm Any More": Political Ecology and Consumer Culture in Belize 149(22) Richard Wilk Properties of Nature, Properties of Culture: Ownership, Recognition, and the Politics of Nature in a Papua New Guinea Society 171(24) Joel Robbins ETHNOGRAPHIES OF NATURE Progress of the Victims: Political Ecology in the Peruvian Amazon 195(38) S ren Ilvalkof Red River, Green War: The Politics of Place along the Porgera River 233(48) Aletta Biersack Between Politics and Poetics: Narratives of Dispossession in Sarawak, East Malaysia 281(44) J. Peter Brosius BETWEEN NATURE AND CULTURE Rappaport's Rose: Structure, Agency, and Historical Contingency in Ecological Anthropology 325(34) J. Stephen Lansing, John Schoenfelder, and Vernon Scarborough Works Cited 359(48) Contributors 407(2) Index 409