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K. Sivaramakrishnan - Modern Forests - 9780804735636 - V9780804735636
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Modern Forests

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Description for Modern Forests hardcover. Num Pages: 372 pages, 17 half-tones 11 tables. BIC Classification: 1F; JHMC; RNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 225 x 148 x 31. Weight in Grams: 550.

Modern Forests is an environmental, institutional, and cultural history of forestry in colonial eastern India. By carefully examining the influence of regional political formations and biogeographic processes on land and forest management, this book offers an analysis of the interrelated social and biophysical factors that influenced landscape change. Through a cultural analysis of powerful landscape representations, Modern Forests reveals the contention, debates, and uncertainty that persisted for two hundred years of colonial rule as forests were identified, classified, and brought under different regimes of control and were transformed to serve a variety of imperial and local interests.

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The book also offers an approach to historical anthropology that does not make apolitical separations between foreign and indigenous views of the world of nature, insisting instead that different cultural repertoires for discerning the natural, and using it, can be fashioned out of shared concerns within and across social groups. The politics of such cultural construction, the book argues, must be studied through institutional histories and ethnographies of statemaking. In conclusion, the author offers a genealogy of development as it can be traced from forest conservation in colonial eastern India.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
372
Condition
New
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804735636
SKU
V9780804735636
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About K. Sivaramakrishnan
K. Sivaramakrishnan is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Washington.

Reviews for Modern Forests
"Among the dozen or so full-length studies [about India's forests] that have been published, this one stands out for the clarity of the argument and lucidity of style. . . . This is a book that sets standards that will be hard to equal, let alone surpass. It is a must for anyone interested in going beyond the superficial in ... Read more

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