TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ogden,Laura
TI  - Loss and wonder at the world's end
SN  - 9781478013631
AV  - GE160.A7 O34 2021
U1  - 333.70982/76 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Durham
PB  - Duke University Press
KW  - Environmental degradation
KW  - Great Island (Argentina and Chile)
KW  - Human ecology
KW  - Imperialism
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - HISTORY / Latin America / South America
KW  - Environmental conditions
KW  - 21st century
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The Earth as archive -- Alternative archives of the present -- An empire of skin -- Stolen images -- Dreamworlds of beavers
N2  - "In Loss and Wonder at the World's End, Laura A. Ogden brings together animals, people, and things-from beavers, stolen photographs, lichen, American explorers, and bird song-to catalog the ways environmental change and colonial history are entangled in the Fuegian Archipelago of southernmost Chile and Argentina. Repeated algal blooms have closed fisheries in the archipelago. Glaciers are in retreat. Extractive industries such as commercial forestry, natural gas production, and salmon farming along with the introduction of non-native species are rapidly transforming assemblages of life. Ogden archives forms of loss-including territory, language, sovereignty, and life itself-as well as forms of wonder, or moments when life continues to flourish even in the ruins of these devastations. Her account draws on long-term ethnographic research with settler and Indigenous communities; archival photographs; explorer journals; as well as experiments in natural history and performance studies. Loss and Wonder at the World's End frames environmental change as imperialism's shadow, a darkness cast upon the Earth in the wake of other losses"--
ER  -