The Anthropology of Extinction: Essays on Culture and by Genese Marie Sodikoff PDF

By Genese Marie Sodikoff

We stay in an period marked by means of an accelerating expense of species demise, yet because the early days of the self-discipline, anthropology has reflected the dying of languages, cultural teams, and methods of existence. The essays during this assortment study methods of―and our figuring out of―extinction throughout quite a few domain names. The participants argue that extinction occasions may be catalysts for brand spanking new cultural, social, environmental, and technological developments―that extinction methods can, mockingly, be effective in addition to harmful. The essays think about a few extensively publicized instances: island species within the Galápagos and Madagascar; the demise of local American languages; ethnic minorities stressed to assimilate in China; cloning as a kind of species regeneration; and the tiny hominid Homo floresiensis fossils ("hobbits") lately pointed out in Indonesia. The Anthropology of Extinction deals compelling explorations of problems with common concern.

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