Sabloff argues that the everyday practices of contemporary capitalist society reinforce our alienation from the rest of nature and reflects on how anthropology has contributed to the prevailing Western perception of a divide between nature and culture.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 304.2/7
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 21
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 0802048323 9781442679221
- LCCN
- QL85
- LCCN Item number
- S22 2000eb
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- CaOTU
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- 1 electronic text (xiv, 252 p., [8] p. of plates)
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- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)thg00600705 (OCoLC)288106886 (CaOOCEL)418111
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Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Preface 10
- Acknowledgments 14
- Prologue: The Pasture in the Metropolis 18
- Introduction: Nature and the City 20
- PART ONE: Constructing the Natural Order 32
- 1 Nature as a Cultural System 34
- 2 Anthropology and the Natural World 49
- PART TWO: Human–Animal Relations in the City 74
- 3 Reproducing the Natural Order: The Domestic Domain 76
- 4 Manufacturing the Natural Order: The Factory Domain 108
- 5 Reordering the Natural World: The Civic Domain and the Invention of History 135
- PART THREE: Naming the Other in Western Culture 160
- 6 Missing Metaphors 162
- 7 Anthropology as Natural History 185
- Epilogue: A Dream in a City Park 216
- Notes 218
- References 250
- Index 262
- A 262
- B 264
- C 264
- D 266
- E 266
- F 267
- G 267
- H 267
- I 268
- J 269
- K 269
- L 269
- M 269
- N 270
- O 271
- P 271
- R 273
- S 273
- T 274
- U 275
- V 275
- W 275
