"Ecocriticism: Creating Self and Place in Environmental and American Indian Literatures studies twentieth-century poets and prose writers of diverse ethnicity who have attempted to recover a sense of home identity, community, and place in response to various forms of displacemen…
Multinational corporations often exploit natural resources or locate factories in poor countries far from the demand for the products and profits that result. Developed countries also routinely dump hazardous materials and produce greenhouse gas emissions that have a disproporti…
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION. Nonhumans and the Paradox of the Human -- CHAPTER 1. Pig-Humans and Human-Pigs: Perspectivism in Dayak Myth and Ritual -- CHAPTER 2. Environmental Uncertainty and Augural Conting…
"Divided into four parts Earth, Air, Fire, and Water this book takes an elemental approach to the study of religion and ecology. It reflects recent theoretical and methodological developments in this field which seek to understand the ways that ideas and matter, minds and bodies…