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We live in an era marked by an accelerating rate of species death, but since the early days of the discipline, anthropology has contemplated the death of languages, cultural groups, and ways of life. The essays in this collection examine processes of―and our understanding of―extinction across various domains. The contributors argue that extinction events can be catalysts for new cultural, social, environmental, and technological developments―that extinction processes can, paradoxically, be productive as well as destructive. The essays consider a number of widely publicized cases: island species in the Galápagos and Madagascar; the death of Native American languages; ethnic minorities under pressure to assimilate in China; cloning as a form of species regeneration; and the tiny hominid Homo floresiensis fossils ("hobbits") recently identified in Indonesia. The Anthropology of Extinction offers compelling explorations of issues of widespread concern.
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Genese Marie Sodikoff is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Rutgers University, Newark. She is author of Forest and Labor in Madagascar: From Colonial Concession to Global Biosphere (IUP, 2012).
The Anthropology of Extinction provides compelling evidence for deep connections between cultural, linguistic, and bio-diversity, and exposes the common threats they now face. This book will serve as a timely call to action for anthropologists, linguists, biologists, and activists. (K. David Harrison Swarthmore College and National Geographic Society)
[F]ulfills a very important need. . . . It is in keeping with the best and most important aspects of ‘posthumanism’ and the trend toward questioning the boundaries between human and nonhuman life. . . . [R]eadable and thought-provoking. (Molly Mullin author (with Rebecca Cassidy) Where the Wild Things Are Now: Domestication Reconsidered)
As key players in the development of the extinction narrative, anthropologists have mostly neglected their potential as critical interlocutors and have not theorized extinction as a meta-narrative on a globalizing planet―until now, that is. This volume’s contributors offer refreshing, insightful, and challenging analytic accounts of the multi-dimensional power of the trope of extinction in specific cultural, linguistic, biological, and environmental case-studies. Their critical interventions do not diminish the anxieties with which we must confront global ecological and sociocultural crises, but each author’s work highlights the necessity for deeper historical understanding and keener political acumen in anthropology’s encounters with the multiple varieties of extinction taking place in this century. (Les W. Field University of New Mexico)
[F]ulfills a very important need. . . . It is in keeping with the best and most important aspects of ‘posthumanism’ and the trend toward questioning the boundaries between human and nonhuman life. . . . [R]eadable and thought-provoking. (Molly Mullin author (with Rebecca Cassidy) Where the Wild Things Are Now: Domestication Reconsidered)
As key players in the development of the extinction narrative, anthropologists have mostly neglected their potential as critical interlocutors and have not theorized extinction as a meta-narrative on a globalizing planet―until now, that is. This volume’s contributors offer refreshing, insightful, and challenging analytic accounts of the multi-dimensional power of the trope of extinction in specific cultural, linguistic, biological, and environmental case-studies. Their critical interventions do not diminish the anxieties with which we must confront global ecological and sociocultural crises, but each author’s work highlights the necessity for deeper historical understanding and keener political acumen in anthropology’s encounters with the multiple varieties of extinction taking place in this century. (Les W. Field University of New Mexico)
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