Table of Contents
List of Figures, List of Tables, List of Colour Plates, Preface, 1. Introduction, Part I: Nature as a Cultural Concept, 2. Human Dimensions in the Sound Universe, 3. A Poetics of Place: Ecological and Aesthetic Co-evolution in a Papua New Guinea Rainforest Community, 4. A Church Too Far Near a Bridge Oddly Placed: The Cultural Construction of the Norfolk Countryside, 5. Hunting and Gathering as Ways of Perceiving the Environment, 6. The Invention of Nature, 7. The Concept of Vital Energy Among Andean Pastoralists, Part II: Relations Between Specific Domesticates and Human Populations, 8. Glutinous-Endosperm Starch Food Culture Specific to Eastern and Southeastern Asia, 9. Creating Landrace Diversity: The Case of the Ari People and Ensete (Ensete ventricosum) in Ethiopia, 10. Human Cognition as a Product and Agent of Evolution, 11. Agrarian Creolization: The Ethnobiology, History, Culture and Politics of West African Rice, 12. Co-evolution Between Humans and Domesticates: The Cultural Selection of Animal Coat-Colour Diversity Among the Bodi, 13. Domestic Animal as Serf: Ideologies of Nature in the Mediterranean and the Middle East, 14. Crops, Techniques, and Affordances, 15. Domesticatory Relationships of People, Plants and Animals, Part III: Nature, Co-evolution and the Problem of Cultural Adaptation, 16. The Co-existence of Man and Nature in the African Rain Forest, 17. Image and Reality at Sea: Fish and Cognitive Mapping in Carolinean Navigational Knowledge, 18. Long-term Adaptation of the Gidra-Speaking Population of Papua New Guinea, 19. Nurturing the Forest: Strategies of Native Amazonians, 20. Process Versus Product in Bomean Augury: A 'Ii'aditional Knowledge System's Solution to the Problem of Knowing, 21. Individual Strategy and Cultural Regulation in Nuaulu Hunting, Notes on Contributors, Index
