Nature and Society. Anthropological Perspectives, 1996, 320 p., hardback. -

The contributors to this book focus on the relationship between nature and society from a variety of theoretical and ethnographic perspectives. Their work draws upon recent developments in social theory, biology, ethnobiology, epistemology, and sociology of science and includes ethnographic case studies from : Amazonia, the Solomon Islands, Malaysia, the Mollucan Islands, rural comunities from Japan and north-west Europe, urban Greece, laboratories of molecular biology, high-energy physics. The discussion is divided into 3 parts, emphasizing the problems posed by the nature-culture dualism, some misguided attempts to respond to these problems, and potential avenues out of the current dilemmas of ecological discourse.