Aletta Biersack is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oregon. She is the editor of Papuan Borderlands: Huli, Duna, and Ipili Perspectives on the Papua New Guinea Highlands and Clio in Oceania: Toward a Historical Anthropology.James B. Greenberg is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arizona and Professor at the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology. He is the author of Blood Ties: Life and Violence in Rural Mexico and Santiago’s Sword: Chatino Peasant Religion and Economics.

• About the Series ixAcknowledgments xiIntroduction / Reimagining Political Ecology Culture/Power/History/Nature / Aletta Biersack 3Beyond Modernist Ecologies Equilibrium Theory and Interdisciplinary Borrowing: A Comparison of Old and New Ecological Anthropologies / Michael R. Dove 43Nature and Society in the Age of Postmodernity / Gisli Palsson 70Constructing and Appropriating Nature Ecopolitics through Ethnography: The Cultures of Finland’s Forest-Nature / Eeva Berglund 97The Political Ecology of Fisheries in the Upper Gulf of California / James B. Greenberg 121“But the Young Men Don’t Want to Farm Any More”: Political Ecology and Consumer Culture in Belize / Richard Wilk 149Properties of Nature, Properties of Culture: Ownership, Recognition, and the Politics of Nature in a Papua New Guinea Society / Joel Robbins 171Ethnographies of Nature Progress of the Victims: Political Ecology in the Peruvian Amazon / Soren Hvalkof 195Red River, Green War: The Politics of Place Along the Porgera River / Aletta Biersack 233Between Politics and Poetics: Narratives of Dispossession in Sarawak, East Malaysia / J. Peter Brosius 281Between Nature and Culture Rappaport’s Rose: Structure, Agency, and Historical Contingency in Ecological Anthropology / J. Stephen Lansing, John Schoenfelder, and Vernon Scarborough 325Works Cited 359Contributors 407Index 409

“Reimagining Political Ecology is an important contribution to efforts to build a more nuanced poststructural political ecology and a pertinent reminder that political ecology has benefited enormously from the work of anthropologists.”-Raymond Bryant, author of The Political Ecology of Forestry in Burma, 1824–1994 “Political ecologists have helped configure the fields of environmental governance and environmental justice. This thoughtful, insight-filled collection helps readers rethink some of the main concerns of political ecology. Organized in complementary counterpoint, the essays use evidence from around the world to make fundamental contributions toward a reconsideration of nature/culture relationships. Scholars from both disciplinary and interdisciplinary formations will discover the need to consult and use this volume.”-Arun Agrawal, author of Environmentality: Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects

Aletta Biersack is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oregon. She is the editor of Papuan Borderlands: Huli, Duna, and Ipili Perspectives on the Papua New Guinea Highlands and Clio in Oceania: Toward a Historical Anthropology.James B. Greenberg is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arizona and Professor at the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology. He is the author of Blood Ties: Life and Violence in Rural Mexico and Santiago’s Sword: Chatino Peasant Religion and Economics.

• About the Series ixAcknowledgments xiIntroduction / Reimagining Political Ecology Culture/Power/History/Nature / Aletta Biersack 3Beyond Modernist Ecologies Equilibrium Theory and Interdisciplinary Borrowing: A Comparison of Old and New Ecological Anthropologies / Michael R. Dove 43Nature and Society in the Age of Postmodernity / Gisli Palsson 70Constructing and Appropriating Nature Ecopolitics through Ethnography: The Cultures of Finland’s Forest-Nature / Eeva Berglund 97The Political Ecology of Fisheries in the Upper Gulf of California / James B. Greenberg 121“But the Young Men Don’t Want to Farm Any More”: Political Ecology and Consumer Culture in Belize / Richard Wilk 149Properties of Nature, Properties of Culture: Ownership, Recognition, and the Politics of Nature in a Papua New Guinea Society / Joel Robbins 171Ethnographies of Nature Progress of the Victims: Political Ecology in the Peruvian Amazon / Soren Hvalkof 195Red River, Green War: The Politics of Place Along the Porgera River / Aletta Biersack 233Between Politics and Poetics: Narratives of Dispossession in Sarawak, East Malaysia / J. Peter Brosius 281Between Nature and Culture Rappaport’s Rose: Structure, Agency, and Historical Contingency in Ecological Anthropology / J. Stephen Lansing, John Schoenfelder, and Vernon Scarborough 325Works Cited 359Contributors 407Index 409

“Reimagining Political Ecology is an important contribution to efforts to build a more nuanced poststructural political ecology and a pertinent reminder that political ecology has benefited enormously from the work of anthropologists.”-Raymond Bryant, author of The Political Ecology of Forestry in Burma, 1824–1994 “Political ecologists have helped configure the fields of environmental governance and environmental justice. This thoughtful, insight-filled collection helps readers rethink some of the main concerns of political ecology. Organized in complementary counterpoint, the essays use evidence from around the world to make fundamental contributions toward a reconsideration of nature/culture relationships. Scholars from both disciplinary and interdisciplinary formations will discover the need to consult and use this volume.”-Arun Agrawal, author of Environmentality: Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects

Aletta Biersack is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oregon. She is the editor of Papuan Borderlands: Huli, Duna, and Ipili Perspectives on the Papua New Guinea Highlands and Clio in Oceania: Toward a Historical Anthropology.James B. Greenberg is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arizona and Professor at the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology. He is the author of Blood Ties: Life and Violence in Rural Mexico and Santiago’s Sword: Chatino Peasant Religion and Economics.

• About the Series ixAcknowledgments xiIntroduction / Reimagining Political Ecology Culture/Power/History/Nature / Aletta Biersack 3Beyond Modernist Ecologies Equilibrium Theory and Interdisciplinary Borrowing: A Comparison of Old and New Ecological Anthropologies / Michael R. Dove 43Nature and Society in the Age of Postmodernity / Gisli Palsson 70Constructing and Appropriating Nature Ecopolitics through Ethnography: The Cultures of Finland’s Forest-Nature / Eeva Berglund 97The Political Ecology of Fisheries in the Upper Gulf of California / James B. Greenberg 121“But the Young Men Don’t Want to Farm Any More”: Political Ecology and Consumer Culture in Belize / Richard Wilk 149Properties of Nature, Properties of Culture: Ownership, Recognition, and the Politics of Nature in a Papua New Guinea Society / Joel Robbins 171Ethnographies of Nature Progress of the Victims: Political Ecology in the Peruvian Amazon / Soren Hvalkof 195Red River, Green War: The Politics of Place Along the Porgera River / Aletta Biersack 233Between Politics and Poetics: Narratives of Dispossession in Sarawak, East Malaysia / J. Peter Brosius 281Between Nature and Culture Rappaport’s Rose: Structure, Agency, and Historical Contingency in Ecological Anthropology / J. Stephen Lansing, John Schoenfelder, and Vernon Scarborough 325Works Cited 359Contributors 407Index 409

“Reimagining Political Ecology is an important contribution to efforts to build a more nuanced poststructural political ecology and a pertinent reminder that political ecology has benefited enormously from the work of anthropologists.”-Raymond Bryant, author of The Political Ecology of Forestry in Burma, 1824–1994 “Political ecologists have helped configure the fields of environmental governance and environmental justice. This thoughtful, insight-filled collection helps readers rethink some of the main concerns of political ecology. Organized in complementary counterpoint, the essays use evidence from around the world to make fundamental contributions toward a reconsideration of nature/culture relationships. Scholars from both disciplinary and interdisciplinary formations will discover the need to consult and use this volume.”-Arun Agrawal, author of Environmentality: Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects