Ogden Laura A. Ogden

Loss and Wonder at the World's End (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

In Loss and Wonder at the World's End, Laura A. Ogden brings together animals, people, and things-from beavers, stolen photographs, lichen, American explorers, and birdsong-to catalog the ways environmental change and colonial history are entangled in the Fuegian Archipelago of southernmost Chile and Argentina. Repeated algal blooms have closed fisheries in the archipelago. Glaciers are in retreat. Extractive industries such as commercial forestry, natural gas production, and salmon farming along with the introduction of nonnative species are rapidly transforming assemblages of life. Ogden archives forms of loss-including territory, language, sovereignty, and life itself-as well as forms of wonder, or moments when life continues to flourish even in the ruins of these devastations. Her account draws on long-term ethnographic research with settler and Indigenous communities; archival photographs; explorer journals; and experiments in natural history and performance studies. Loss and Wonder at the World's End frames environmental change as imperialism's shadow, a darkness cast over the earth in the wake of other losses.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478021865
• Artikelnr.: 66282717

Autorenporträt

Laura A. Ogden is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Dartmouth College, author of Swamplife: People, Gators, and Mangroves Entangled in the Everglades, coauthor of Gladesmen: Gator Hunters, Moonshiners, and Skiffers , and coeditor of The Coastal Everglades: The Dynamics of Social-Ecological Transformation in the South Florida Landscape.

Inhaltsangabe

The World's End: A Figure  1
Introduction. Loss and Wonder  4
The Explorer's Refrain: A Figure  15
1. The Earth as Archive  21
Arturo Escobar: A Figure  44
The Archival Earth: A Figure  47
2. Alternative Archives of the Present  51
Lichens on the Beach: A Figure  57
3. An Empire of Skin  62
The Anthropologist: A Figure  86
4. Stolen Images  91
Lewis Henry Morgan: A Figure  107
5. Dreamworlds of Beavers  111
Traces of Derrida: A Figure  127
Anne Chapman: A Figure  130
Conclusion. Birdsong  133
Gratitude: A Figuration  141
Notes  145
Bibliography  169
Index  183