In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:

227 INTRODUCTION A SPECIES APART FROM ECOCIDE TO GENETIC RESCUE TOTEM AND TABOO RECONSIDERED CONTRIBUTORS Janet Chernela is Professor of Anthropology and Latin American Studies at the University of Maryland. She has conducted research in the Brazilian Amazon since 1978, focusing on questions of indigenous peoples’ perceptions and use of the forests in which they live as well as the articulations between indigenous rights and conservation. She is author of A Sense of Space: The Wanano Indians of the Brazilian Amazon. Jill Constantino is Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University and the Allston Burr Resident Dean of Cabot House. Her research focuses on social conflicts in the Galápagos Islands, constructions of nature, human/animal relationships, and the interface between humans and technology. Gregory Forth is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Alberta. He is author of Beneath the Volcano: Religion, Cosmology and Spirit Classification among the Nage of Eastern Indonesia; Dualism and Hierarchy: Processes of Binary Combination in Keo Society; Nage Birds: Classification and Symbolism among an Eastern Indonesian People; and Images of the Wildman in Southeast Asia: An Anthropological Perspective. Paul B. Garrett is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Anthropology at Temple University. He is a linguistic anthropologist whose interests include creolization and other language contact phenomena, language socialization, ideologies of language, the political economy of language, and the Caribbean region. GENESE MARIE SODIKOFF 228 JANET CHERNELA TRACEY HEATHERINGTON GENESE MARIE SODIKOFF JILL CONSTANTINO MICHAEL HATHAWAY BERNARD C. PERLEY PAUL B. GARRETT LAURIE R. GODFREY AND EMILIENNE RASOAZANABARY GREGORY FORTH PETER M. WHITELEY CONTRIBUTORS Laurie R. Godfrey is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts , Amherst. She is a biological anthropologist and paleontologist with interests in nonhuman primate anatomy and evolution. Her books include Scientists Confront Creationism and What Darwin Began: Modern Darwinian and Non-Darwinian Perspectives on Evolution. Michael Hathaway is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Simon Fraser University. His research explores the politics of nature and indigeneity in China as well as the transnational flows of commercial goods, environmental beliefs, and scientific practices. Tracey Heatherington is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee and author of Wild Sardinia: Indigeneity and the Global Dreamtimes of Environmentalism. Her scholarship considers the cultural politics and postnational contexts of biodiversity conservation, engaging a humanistic approach to the field of sustainable development. Bernard C. Perley is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. His research interests include intertextuality, intermediality, and indigeneity as practices of Native American linguistic and cultural revitalization and self-determination. He is Wəlastəkwi (Maliseet) and a member of Tobique First Nation. Emilienne Rasoazanabary received her Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has studied mouse lemurs since 1999 and has also focused on human activities and attitudes toward conservation, and how human behavior influences the behavior and demography of mouse lemurs. Genese Marie Sodikoff is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Rutgers University, Newark. Since 1994, she has studied rain forest conservation and international development, biodiversity conservation, colonial labor regimes, land ethics, and human/animal relations in Madagascar. She is author of Forest and Labor in Madagascar: From Colonial Concession to Global Biosphere (IUP, 2012). Peter M. Whiteley is Curator of North American Ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. His principal research addresses society, culture, environmental relations, and history among the Hopi Indians of northern Arizona, where he has conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork since 1980. Major works include Rethinking Hopi Ethnography and The Orayvi Split: A Hopi Transformation. ...

Share