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Title

The anthropology of extinction : essays on culture and species death / edited by Genese Marie Sodikoff.

Publication

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2012.

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Additional Authors

Sodikoff, Genese Marie, 1966-

Description

ix, 243 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"The essays in this collection examine processes of--and our understanding of--extinction across various domains. The contributors argue that extinction events can be catalysts for new cultural, social, environmental, and technological developments--that extinction processes can, paradoxically, be productive as well as destructive. The essays consider a number of widely publicized cases: island species in the Galápagos and Madagascar; the death of Native American languages; ethnic minorities under pressure to assimilate in China; cloning as a form of species regeneration; and the tiny hominid Homo floresiensis fossils ("hobbits") recently identified in Indonesia."--Publisher description.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books.

Subject

• Culture > Philosophy
• Anthropology > Philosophy
• Extinction (Biology)
• Extinction (Psychology)
• Anthropological linguistics
• Language
• Extinction, Biological

Genre/Form

Konferenzschrift – 2008 – Newark NJ.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Accumulating absence : cultural productions of the sixth extinction / Genese Marie Sodikoff -- A species apart : ideology, science, and the end of life / Janet Chernela -- From ecocide to genetic rescue : can technoscience save the wild? / Tracey Heatherington -- Totem and taboo reconsidered : endangered species and moral practice in Madagascar / Genese Marie Sodikoff -- Tortoise soup for the soul : finding a space for human history in evolution's laboratory / Jill Constantino -- Global environmentalism and the emergence of indigeneity : the politics of cultural and biological diversity in China / Michael Hathaway -- Last words, final thoughts : collateral extinctions in Maliseet language death / Bernard C. Perley -- Dying young : Pidgins, Creoles, and other contact languages as endangered languages / Paul B. Garrett -- Demise of the bet hedgers : a case study of human impacts on past and present lemurs of Madagascar / Laurie R. Godfrey and Emilienne Rasoazanabary -- Disappearing wildmen : capture, extirpation, and extinction as regular components of representations of putative hairy hominoids / Gregory Forth -- Epilogue : Prolegomenon for a new totemism / Peter M. Whiteley.

ISBN

• 9780253357137 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0253357136 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780253223647 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0253223644 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780253005458 (e-book)
• 0253005450 (e-book)

LCCN

^^2011024026

OCLC

• 707212851
• SCSB-12509676

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library