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Kuhls of Kangra
Community-Managed Irrigation in the Western Himalaya
Av J. Mark Baker, K. Sivaramakrishnan
Häftad, 2007
534 kr
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In the Kangra Valley of India's western Himalaya, farmers have for centuries relied on community-managed kuhl systems - intricate networks of collectively built and maintained irrigation channels - for their rice and wheat farming. Over the years, earthquakes and floods have repeatedly destroyed …
Organic Sovereignties
Struggles over Farming in an Age of Free Trade
Av Guntra A. Aistara, K. Sivaramakrishnan
Inbunden, 2018
1866 kr
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This first sustained ethnographic study of organic agriculture outside the United States traces its meanings, practices, and politics in two nations typically considered worlds apart: Latvia and Costa Rica. Situated on the frontiers of the European Union and the United States, these geopolitically …
Organic Sovereignties
Struggles over Farming in an Age of Free Trade
Av Guntra A. Aistara, K. Sivaramakrishnan
Häftad, 2018
534 kr
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This first sustained ethnographic study of organic agriculture outside the United States traces its meanings, practices, and politics in two nations typically considered worlds apart: Latvia and Costa Rica. Situated on the frontiers of the European Union and the United States, these geopolitically …
Living with Oil and Coal
Resource Politics and Militarization in Northeast India
Av Dolly Kikon, K. Sivaramakrishnan
Häftad, 2019
550 kr
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The nineteenth-century discovery of oil in the eastern Himalayan foothills, together with the establishment of tea plantations and other extractive industries, continues to have a profound impact on life in the region. In the Indian states of Assam and Nagaland, everyday militarization, violence, …
Caring for Glaciers
Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas
Av Karine Gagné, K. Sivaramakrishnan
Häftad, 2019
534 kr
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Regional geopolitical processes have turned the Himalayan region of Ladakh, in northwest India, into a strategic border area with an increasing military presence that has decentered the traditional agropastoralist economy. This in turn has led to social fragmentation, the growing isolation of …
Caring for Glaciers
Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas
Av Karine Gagné, K. Sivaramakrishnan
Inbunden, 2019
1866 kr
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Regional geopolitical processes have turned the Himalayan region of Ladakh, in northwest India, into a strategic border area with an increasing military presence that has decentered the traditional agropastoralist economy. This in turn has led to social fragmentation, the growing isolation of …
Living with Oil and Coal
Resource Politics and Militarization in Northeast India
Av Dolly Kikon, K. Sivaramakrishnan
Inbunden, 2019
1922 kr
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The nineteenth-century discovery of oil in the eastern Himalayan foothills, together with the establishment of tea plantations and other extractive industries, continues to have a profound impact on life in the region. In the Indian states of Assam and Nagaland, everyday militarization, violence, …
Roses from Kenya
Labor, Environment, and the Global Trade in Cut Flowers
Av Megan A. Styles, K. Sivaramakrishnan
Häftad, 2019
550 kr
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Honorable Mention for the Society for the Anthropology of Work (SAW) Book prizeThe potential of floriculture grows at Lake NaivashaKenya supplies more than 35 percent of the fresh-cut roses and other flowers sold annually in the European Union. This industry—which employs at least 90,000 workers, …
Roses from Kenya
Labor, Environment, and the Global Trade in Cut Flowers
Av Megan A. Styles, K. Sivaramakrishnan
Inbunden, 2019
1922 kr
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Honorable Mention for the Society for the Anthropology of Work (SAW) Book prizeThe potential of floriculture grows at Lake NaivashaKenya supplies more than 35 percent of the fresh-cut roses and other flowers sold annually in the European Union. This industry—which employs at least 90,000 workers, …
Snow Leopard and the Goat
Politics of Conservation in the Western Himalayas
Av Shafqat Hussain, K. Sivaramakrishnan
Häftad, 2020
550 kr
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Who should bear the cost of protecting charismatic wildlife?Following the downgrading of the snow leopard’s status from “endangered” to “vulnerable” by the International Union for Conservation of Nature in 2017, debate has renewed about the actual number of snow leopards in the wild and the most …
Snow Leopard and the Goat
Politics of Conservation in the Western Himalayas
Inbunden, 2020
1922 kr
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Who should bear the cost of protecting charismatic wildlife?Following the downgrading of the snow leopard's status from "endangered" to "vulnerable" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature in 2017, debate has renewed about the actual number of snow leopards in the wild and the most …
Disturbed Forests, Fragmented Memories
Jarai and Other Lives in the Cambodian Highlands
Av Jonathan Padwe, K. Sivaramakrishnan
Inbunden, 2020
1922 kr
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In the hill country of northeast Cambodia, just a few kilometers from the Vietnam border, sits the village of Tang Kadon. This community of hill rice farmers of the Jarai ethnic minority group survived aerial bombardment and the American invasion of Cambodia during the Vietnam War, only to find …
Shifting Livelihoods
Gold Mining and Subsistence in the Chocó, Colombia
Av Daniel Tubb
Inbunden, 2020
1922 kr
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Honorable Mention for the Society for the Anthropology of Work (SAW) Book PrizeThe many dimensions of gold in a shadow economyPeople employ various methods to extract gold in the rainforests of the Chocó, in northwest Colombia: Rural Afro-Colombian artisanal miners work hillsides with hand tools or …
Shifting Livelihoods
Gold Mining and Subsistence in the Chocó, Colombia
Av Daniel Tubb, K. Sivaramakrishnan
Häftad, 2020
550 kr
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Honorable Mention for the Society for the Anthropology of Work (SAW) Book PrizeThe many dimensions of gold in a shadow economyPeople employ various methods to extract gold in the rainforests of the Chocó, in northwest Colombia: Rural Afro-Colombian artisanal miners work hillsides with hand tools or …
Gardens of Gold
Place-Making in Papua New Guinea
Av Jamon Alex Halvaksz, K. Sivaramakrishnan
Häftad, 2020
534 kr
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“This is a soya bean,” the Biangai villager explained, “a money bean.”Since the start of colonial gold mining in the early 1920s, the Biangai villagers of Elauru and Winima in Papua New Guinea have moved away from planting yams and other subsistence foods to instead cultivating coffee and other …
Gardens of Gold
Place-Making in Papua New Guinea
Inbunden, 2020
1866 kr
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“This is a soya bean,” the Biangai villager explained, “a money bean.”Since the start of colonial gold mining in the early 1920s, the Biangai villagers of Elauru and Winima in Papua New Guinea have moved away from planting yams and other subsistence foods to instead cultivating coffee and other …
Sacred Cows and Chicken Manchurian
The Everyday Politics of Eating Meat in India
Inbunden, 2020
1922 kr
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Challenges popular generalizations about cow protection and beef consumptionBovine politics exposes fault lines within contemporary Indian society, where eating beef is simultaneously a violation of sacred taboos, an expression of marginalized identities, and a route to cosmopolitan sophistication. …
Sacred Cows and Chicken Manchurian
The Everyday Politics of Eating Meat in India
Av James Staples, K. Sivaramakrishnan
Häftad, 2020
550 kr
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Challenges popular generalizations about cow protection and beef consumptionBovine politics exposes fault lines within contemporary Indian society, where eating beef is simultaneously a violation of sacred taboos, an expression of marginalized identities, and a route to cosmopolitan sophistication. …
Mountains of Blame
Climate and Culpability in the Philippine Uplands
Av Will Smith
Inbunden, 2020
1922 kr
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Explores the unsettling phenomenon of indigenous self-blame for climate changeSwidden agriculture has long been considered the primary cause of deforestation throughout Southeast Asia, and the Philippine government has used this belief to exclude the indigenous people of Palawan Island from their …
Mountains of Blame
Climate and Culpability in the Philippine Uplands
Av Will Smith, K. Sivaramakrishnan
Häftad, 2020
550 kr
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Explores the unsettling phenomenon of indigenous self-blame for climate changeSwidden agriculture has long been considered the primary cause of deforestation throughout Southeast Asia, and the Philippine government has used this belief to exclude the indigenous people of Palawan Island from their …
Mapping Water in Dominica
Enslavement and Environment under Colonialism
Av Mark W. Hauser, K. Sivaramakrishnan
Inbunden, 2021
1922 kr
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How sugarcane monoculture decimated an island's water supply and peopleOpen access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295748733Dominica, a place once described as “Nature’s Island,” was rich in biodiversity and seemingly abundant water, but in the eighteenth century a brief, failed attempt by colonial …
Mapping Water in Dominica
Enslavement and Environment under Colonialism
Av Mark W. Hauser, K. Sivaramakrishnan
Häftad, 2021
467 kr
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How sugarcane monoculture decimated an island's water supply and peopleOpen access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295748733Dominica, a place once described as “Nature’s Island,” was rich in biodiversity and seemingly abundant water, but in the eighteenth century a brief, failed attempt by colonial …
Consuming Ivory
Mercantile Legacies of East Africa and New England
Av Alexandra Celia Kelly, K. Sivaramakrishnan
Inbunden, 2021
1922 kr
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Examines the complex global impact of the ivory tradeThe economic prosperity of two nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century New England towns rested on factories that manufactured piano keys, billiard balls, combs, and other items made of ivory imported from East Africa. Yet while towns like …
Consuming Ivory
Mercantile Legacies of East Africa and New England
Av Alexandra Celia Kelly, K. Sivaramakrishnan
Häftad, 2021
550 kr
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Examines the complex global impact of the ivory tradeThe economic prosperity of two nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century New England towns rested on factories that manufactured piano keys, billiard balls, combs, and other items made of ivory imported from East Africa. Yet while towns like …
Timber and Forestry in Qing China
Sustaining the Market
Av Meng Zhang, K. Sivaramakrishnan
Inbunden, 2021
1922 kr
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Winner of the 2022 Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Book Award for best book on forest and conservation history, sponsored by the Forest History SocietyHonorable Mention for the 2022 ISCLH First Biennial Book Prize, sponsored by the International Society for Chinese Law and HistoryTraces the sourcing of …
Timber and Forestry in Qing China
Sustaining the Market
Av Meng Zhang, K. Sivaramakrishnan
Häftad, 2021
550 kr
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Winner of the 2022 Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Book Award for best book on forest and conservation history, sponsored by the Forest History SocietyHonorable Mention for the 2022 ISCLH First Biennial Book Prize, sponsored by the International Society for Chinese Law and HistoryTraces the sourcing of …
Ordering the Myriad Things
From Traditional Knowledge to Scientific Botany in China
Av Nicholas K. Menzies, K. Sivaramakrishnan
Inbunden, 2021
1750 kr
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Winner of the 2024 SHNH Natural History Book Prize (The John Thackray Medal)An exploration of plant wisdom, from the Southern Mountain Tea Flower to the Dawn RedwoodChina’s vast and ancient body of documented knowledge about plants includes horticultural manuals and monographs, comprehensive …
Ordering the Myriad Things
From Traditional Knowledge to Scientific Botany in China
Av Nicholas K. Menzies, K. Sivaramakrishnan
Häftad, 2021
550 kr
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Winner of the 2024 SHNH Natural History Book Prize (The John Thackray Medal)An exploration of plant wisdom, from the Southern Mountain Tea Flower to the Dawn RedwoodChina’s vast and ancient body of documented knowledge about plants includes horticultural manuals and monographs, comprehensive …
Misreading the Bengal Delta
Climate Change, Development, and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh
Av Camelia Dewan, K. Sivaramakrishnan
Inbunden, 2022
1866 kr
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Winner of the 2025 ACLS Open Access Book Prize in the Environmental Humanities Category, ACLS and ArcadiaAn unexpected story of climate change initiatives that threaten a complex waterscapePerilously close to sea level and vulnerable to floods, erosion, and cyclones, Bangladesh is one of the top …
Misreading the Bengal Delta
Climate Change, Development, and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh
Av Camelia Dewan, K. Sivaramakrishnan
Häftad, 2022
510 kr
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Winner of the 2025 ACLS Open Access Book Prize in the Environmental Humanities Category, ACLS and ArcadiaAn unexpected story of climate change initiatives that threaten a complex waterscapePerilously close to sea level and vulnerable to floods, erosion, and cyclones, Bangladesh is one of the top …
