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African-American Exploration in West Africa
Four Nineteenth-Century Diaries
Av James Fairhead, Tim Geysbeek m. fl.
Inbunden, 2003
726 kr
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In the 1860s, as America waged civil war, several thousand African Americans sought greater freedom by emigrating to the fledgling nation of Liberia. While some argued that the new black republic represented disposal rather than emancipation, a few intrepid men set out to explore their African …
Captain and "the Cannibal"
An Epic Story of Exploration, Kidnapping, and the Broadway Stage
Inbunden, 2015
1035 kr
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The astounding saga of an American sea captain and the New Guinean nobleman who became his stunned captive, then ally, and eventual friendSailing in uncharted waters of the Pacific in 1830, Captain Benjamin Morrell of Connecticut became the first outsider to encounter the inhabitants of a small …
Captain and "e;the Cannibal"e;
An Epic Story of Exploration, Kidnapping, and the Broadway Stage
E-bok, 2015
371 kr
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The astounding saga of an American sea captain and the New Guinean nobleman who became his stunned captive, then ally, and eventual friendSailing in uncharted waters of the Pacific in 1830, Captain Benjamin Morrell of Connecticut became the first outsider to encounter the inhabitants of a small …
Reframing Deforestation
Global Analyses and Local Realities: Studies in West Africa
Av James Fairhead, Melissa Leach
Inbunden, 1998
3149 kr
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This study reviews how West African deforestation is represented and the evidence which informs deforestation orthodoxy. On a country by country basis (covering Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote D'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo and Benin), and using historical and social anthropological evidence the authors …
Reframing Deforestation
Global Analyses and Local Realities: Studies in West Africa
Av James Fairhead, Melissa Leach
Häftad, 1998
1324 kr
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This study reviews how West African deforestation is represented and the evidence which informs deforestation orthodoxy. On a country by country basis (covering Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote D'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo and Benin), and using historical and social anthropological evidence the authors …
Green Grabbing: A New Appropriation of Nature
Av James Fairhead, Melissa Leach m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
2506 kr
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Across the world, ecosystems are for sale. ‘Green grabbing’ – the appropriation of land and resources for environmental ends – is an emerging process of deep and growing significance. A vigorous debate on ‘land grabbing’ already highlights instances where ‘green’ credentials are called upon to …
Science, Society and Power
Environmental Knowledge and Policy in West Africa and the Caribbean
Av James Fairhead, Melissa Leach
Häftad, 2003
875 kr
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In this book, James Fairhead and Melissa Leach bring science to the heart of debates about globalisation, exploring transformations in global science and contrasting effects in Guinea, one of the world's poorest countries, and Trinidad, a more prosperous, industrialised and urbanised island. The …
Misreading the African Landscape
Society and Ecology in a Forest-Savanna Mosaic
Av James Fairhead, Melissa Leach m. fl.
Häftad, 1996
471 kr
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Islands of dense forest in the savanna of 'forest' Guinea have long been regarded both by scientists and policy-makers as the last relics of a once more extensive forest cover, degraded and degrading fast due to its inhabitants' land use. In this 1996 text, James Fairhead and Melissa Leach question …
Naturekind
Language, Culture and Power Beyond the Human
Av Melissa Leach, James Fairhead
Häftad, 2025
219 kr
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A new paradigm that integrates human and nonhuman communication and cultureAre language and culture uniquely human, justifying an exceptionalism that sets people apart from the rest of nature? New discoveries in the biological sciences have challenged this assumption, finding syntax, symbolism and …
Naturekind
Language, Culture and Power Beyond the Human
Av Melissa Leach, James Fairhead
Inbunden, 2025
855 kr
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A new paradigm that integrates human and nonhuman communication and cultureAre language and culture uniquely human, justifying an exceptionalism that sets people apart from the rest of nature? New discoveries in the biological sciences have challenged this assumption, finding syntax, symbolism and …
Political Ecology of Forests in West Africa
Av Adeniyi Asiyanbi, Melis Ece m. fl.
Inbunden, 2027
2480 kr
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This book investigates the transformation of West African forests in the 21st century, reflecting on the politics, struggles, and ideas that define the region’s forest socio-ecologies.Seeing recent developments as in part a continuation of a long history of colonial and postcolonial struggles, the …
Reframing Deforestation
Global Analyses and Local Realities: Studies in West Africa
Av Melissa Leach, James Fairhead
E-bok, 2003
1535 kr
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This study reviews how West African deforestation is represented and the evidence which informs deforestation orthodoxy. On a country by country basis (covering Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote D''Ivoire, Ghana, Togo and Benin), and using historical and social anthropological evidence the authors …
Reframing Deforestation
Global Analyses and Local Realities: Studies in West Africa
Av Melissa Leach, James Fairhead
E-bok, 2003
1569 kr
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This study reviews how West African deforestation is represented and the evidence which informs deforestation orthodoxy. On a country by country basis (covering Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote D''Ivoire, Ghana, Togo and Benin), and using historical and social anthropological evidence the authors …
Vaccine Anxieties
Global Science, Child Health and Society
Av James Fairhead, Melissa Leach
E-bok, 2012
785 kr
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This book explores how parents understand and engage with childhood vaccination in contrasting global contexts. This rapidly advancing and universal technology has sparked dramatic controversy, whether over MMR in the UK or oral polio vaccines in Nigeria. Combining a fresh anthropological …
Vaccine Anxieties
Global Science, Child Health and Society
Av James Fairhead, Melissa Leach
E-bok, 2012
762 kr
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This book explores how parents understand and engage with childhood vaccination in contrasting global contexts. This rapidly advancing and universal technology has sparked dramatic controversy, whether over MMR in the UK or oral polio vaccines in Nigeria. Combining a fresh anthropological …
Green Grabbing: A New Appropriation of Nature
Av James Fairhead, Melissa Leach m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
911 kr
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Across the world, ecosystems are for sale. ‘Green grabbing’ – the appropriation of land and resources for environmental ends – is an emerging process of deep and growing significance. A vigorous debate on ‘land grabbing’ already highlights instances where ‘green’ credentials are called upon to …
Green Grabbing: A New Appropriation of Nature
Av Ian Scoones, Melissa Leach m. fl.
E-bok, 2014
1074 kr
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Across the world, ecosystems are for sale. ‘Green grabbing’ – the appropriation of land and resources for environmental ends – is an emerging process of deep and growing significance. A vigorous debate on ‘land grabbing’ already highlights instances where ‘green’ credentials are called upon to …
Green Grabbing: A New Appropriation of Nature
Av Ian Scoones, Melissa Leach m. fl.
E-bok, 2014
1051 kr
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Across the world, ecosystems are for sale. ‘Green grabbing’ – the appropriation of land and resources for environmental ends – is an emerging process of deep and growing significance. A vigorous debate on ‘land grabbing’ already highlights instances where ‘green’ credentials are called upon to …
Vaccine Anxieties
Global Science, Child Health and Society
Av Melissa Leach, James Fairhead
Häftad, 2007
637 kr
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This book explores how parents understand and engage with childhood vaccination in contrasting global contexts. This rapidly advancing and universal technology has sparked dramatic controversy, whether over MMR in the UK or oral polio vaccines in Nigeria. Combining a fresh anthropological …
Vaccine Anxieties
Global Science, Child Health and Society
Av Melissa Leach, James Fairhead
Inbunden, 2007
2470 kr
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This book explores how parents understand and engage with childhood vaccination in contrasting global contexts. This rapidly advancing and universal technology has sparked dramatic controversy, whether over MMR in the UK or oral polio vaccines in Nigeria. Combining a fresh anthropological …
