The Anthropology of Extinction: Essays on Culture and Species Death

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1 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The Anthropology of Extinction ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 2 3 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The Anthropology of Extinction ESSAYS ON CULTURE AND SPECIES DEATH Edited by Genese Marie Sodikoff INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS Bloomington and Indianapolis ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 4 This book is a publication of Indiana University Press 601 North Morton Street Bloomington, Indiana 47404-3797 USA iupress.indiana.edu Telephone orders 800-842-6796 Fax orders 812-855-7931© 2012 by Indiana University Press All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. The Association of American University Presses’ Resolution on Permissions constitutes the only exception to this prohibition. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences— Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992. Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The anthropology of extinction : essays on culture and species death / edited by Genese Marie Sodikoff. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-253-35713-7 (cloth : alk. paper)—ISBN 978-0-25322364 -7 (pbk. : alk. paper)—ISBN 978-0-253-00545-8 (e-book) 1. Culture—Philosophy. 2. Anthropology/Philosophy. 3. Extinction (Biology) 4. Extinction (Psychology) 5. Anthropological linguistics. I. Sodikoff, Genese Marie, [date] GN357.A57 2012 306.01--dc23 2011024026 1 2 3 4 5 17 16 15 14 13 12 5 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS A shift in the structure of experience told the farmer on his Andean plateau “Your way of life is obsolescent.” —But hasn’t it always been so? “The DisplaceD of capiTal,”anne WinTers, 2004 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 6 ...