Ecological Nostalgias

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).

“Explores and exemplifies ethnographically an emerging conceptual framework on ecological nostalgias to better understand the emotional impacts on and responses of people to the environmental crises that beset our world”. • Rajindra K. Puri, University of Kent“It is a tour de force in showing what anthropology can contribute to thinking about the global ecological crisis, and why the cultural and political dimensions of this crisis are no less important than the material ones”. • Marc Brightman, University of Bologna

• List of Figures and MapsAcknowledgementsIntroductionOlivia Angé and David BerlinerChapter 1. Thinking Through Nostalgia in Anthropologies of the Environment and Ethnographies of LandscapeRoy EllenChapter 2. High Arctic Nostalgia: Thule and the Ecology of MindKirsten HastrupChapter 3. Nostalgic Confessions in the French Cévennes: Politics of Longings in the Neo-Peasants Initiatives  Madeleine SallustioChapter 4. The Nature of Loss: Ecological Nostalgia and Cultural Politics in AmazoniaCasey HighChapter 5. Ecological Nostalgias and Interspecies Affect in the Highland Potato Fields of Cuzco (Peru)Olivia AngéChapter 6. The Village and the Hamlet in the Mixe Highlands of Oaxaca, Mexico: Nostalgic Commitments to Working and Living TogetherPerig PitrouChapter 7. Peaceful Countryside: Ecologies of Longing and the Temporality of Flux in Contemporary MongoliaRichard D.G. IrvineChapter 8. Melt in the Future SubjunctiveCymene HoweAfterwordDominic BoyerIndex