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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
224
Utgivningsdatum
2011-06-01
Förlag
University of Minnesota Press
Illustrationer
23 b&w illustrations, 4 maps, 1 table
Dimensioner
213 x 140 x 18 mm
Vikt
272 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
Paperback
ISBN
9780816670277

Swamplife

People, Gators, and Mangroves Entangled in the Everglades

av Laura A Ogden
Häftad,  Engelska, 2011-06-01
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Little in North America is wilder than the Florida Evergladesa landscape of frightening reptiles, exotic plants in profusion, swarms of mosquitoes, and unforgiving heat. And yet, even from the early days of taming the wilderness with clearing and drainage, the Everglades has been considered fragile, unique, and in need of restorative interventions. Drawing on a decade of fieldwork with hunters in the Everglades, Laura A. Ogden explores the lives and labors of people, animals, and plants in this most delicate and tenacious ecosystem. Today, the many visions of the Evergladesprotectionist, ecological, commercial, historicalhave become a tangled web of contradictory practices and politics for conservation and for development. Yet within this entanglement, the place of people remains highly ambivalent. It is the role of people in the Everglades that interests Ogden, as she seeks to reclaim the landscapes long history as a place of human activity and, in doing so, discover what it means to be human through changing relations with other animals and plant life. Ogden tells this story through the lives of poor rural whites, gladesmen, epitomized in tales of the Everglades most famous outlaws, the Ashley Gang. With such legends and lore on one side, and outsized efforts at drainage and development on the other, Swamplife strikes a rare balance, offering a unique insight into the hidden life of the Evergladesand into how an appreciation of oppositional culture and social class operates in our understanding of wilderness in the United States.
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"Tangled swamps; alligator hunters; outlaws: Here is a multi-species ethnography that is really fun to read. The book just asks to be taught." Anna Tsing, author of Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection "Swamplife is thoroughly compelling. It works at the cutting edge of theory without straying far from an extremely grounded, rich, and page-turning narrative style. There are few books like it in political ecology." Paul Robbins, author of Political Ecology: A Critical Introduction

Övrig information

Laura A. Ogden is associate professor of anthropology at Florida International University.

Innehållsförteckning

Map of Southern Florida and the Greater Everglades Watershed Map of Everglades National Park Acknowledgments 1. The Florida Everglades: An Entangled Landscape The Queen of the Everglades 2. Landscape Ethnography and the Politics of Nature The Notorious Ashley Gang 3. Earth, Fire and Flesh: Territorial Refrains The Theatrics of Everglades Outlaws 4. The Travels of Snakes, Mangroves, and Men The Gang Vanishes into the Mysterious Swamp 5. Searching for Paradise in the Florida Everglades The Story Doesnt End with the Ambush on the Sebastian River Bridge 6. Alligator Conservation, Commodities, and Tactics of Subversion Epilogue. The Bill Ashley Jungles: Trace Impressions of a Forgotten Landscape Notes Index

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