Ecological Nostalgias

Olivia Ange is an Associate Professor at Universite Libre de Bruxelles. Besides a series of papers, she is the author of Barter and Social Regeneration in the Argentinean Andes (Berghahn, 2018), and co-editor of Anthropology and Nostalgia (Berghahn, 2014).David Berliner is a Professor of Anthropology at Universite Libre de Bruxelles. He is the co-editor of Learning Religion (Berghahn, 2007), Anthropology and Nostalgia (Berghahn, 2014) and World Heritage on the Ground (Berghahn, 2016).

• List of FiguresIntroductionOlivia Ange and David BerlinerChapter 1. Thinking Through Nostalgia in Anthropologies of the Environment and Ethnographies of LandscapeRoy EllenChapter 2. High Arctic Nostalgia: Thule and the Ecology of MindKirsten HastrupChapter 3. Nostalgic Confessions in the French Cevennes: Politics of Longings in the Neo-Peasants InitiativesMadeleine SallustioChapter 4. The Nature of Loss: Ecological Nostalgia and Cultural Politics in AmazoniaCasey HighChapter 5. Ecological Nostalgias and Interspecies Affect in the Highland Potato Fields of Cuzco (Peru)Olivia AngeChapter 6. The Village and the Hamlet in the Mixe Highlands of Oaxaca, Mexico: Nostalgic Commitments to Working and Living togetherPerig PitrouChapter 7. Peaceful Countryside: Ecologies of Longing and the Temporality of Flux in Contemporary MongoliaRichard IrvineChapter 8. Melt in the Future SubjunctiveCymene HoweAfterwordDominic BoyerIndex

"Explores and exemplifies ethnographically an emerging conceptual framework on ecological nostalgias to better understand the emotional impacts on and responses of people to the environmental crises that beset our world". Rajindra K. Puri, University of Kent"It is a tour de force in showing what anthropology can contribute to thinking about the global ecological crisis, and why the cultural and political dimensions of this crisis are no less important than the material ones". Marc Brightman, University of Bologna