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180 BOOK REVIEW such as the possibility of erasing nature-culture dual- livelihood from local ecosystems” (50). For Horn- ism, the perceptual categories that might replace such borg, “knowledge” is not a grasping of some objective dualism, moral attitudes towards non-humans, and reality “out there,” but a negotiated relationship with understandings of human practices ranging from hunt- nature, which reconstructs nature in the process of ing to biotechnology. What holds the essays together is representing it. Like Ingold, he contends that subjec- their common interest in ways of constructing nature tivity is a constituent component of ecosystems, both (and society) that do not correspond to established shaping and shaped in the course of people’s interac- Western notions about nature and culture, animal and tions with and knowledge of their surroundings. In this human, matter and spirit, or body and mind. light, a clear-cut distinction between nature and society The chapters in the first part, “Contested domains makes no sense. and boundaries,” all reject traditional dualism and Along similar lines, Gisli Palsson’s chapter, argue for more integrative models of understanding “Human-environmental relations: orientalism, pater- humans, “nature,” and the interactions between them. nalism, and communalism,” argues for the integration Tim Ingold’s essay
Agriculture and Human Values – Springer Journals
Published: Oct 13, 2004
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