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Bitter Shade

Bitter Shade

The Ecological Challenge of Human Consciousness

by Michael R. Dove
Hardback
Publication Date: 27/04/2021

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A seminal anthropological work on the paradoxical relationship between human consciousness and the environment

"Innovative, insightful, incandescent."--Arun Agrawal, author of Environmentality: Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects

This book asks age-old questions about the relationship between human consciousness and the environment: How do we think about our own thoughts and actions? How can we transcend the exigencies of daily life? How can we achieve sufficient distance from our own everyday realities to think and act more sustainably?

To address these questions, Michael R. Dove draws on the results of decades of research in South and Southeast Asia on how local cultures have circumvented the "curse of consciousness"--the paradox that we cannot completely comprehend the ecosystem of which we are part. He distills from his ethnographic, ecological, and historical research three principles: perspectivism (seeing oneself from outside oneself), metamorphosis (becoming something that one is not), and mimesis (copying something that one is not), which help a society to transcend the hubris and myopia of everyday existence and achieve greater insight into its ecosystem.

ISBN:
9780300251746
9780300251746
Category:
The environment
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
27-04-2021
Language:
English
Publisher:
Yale University Press
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
23.5x15.6x1.5mm
Weight:
0.62kg

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