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Loss and wonder at the world's end / Laura A. Ogden.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2021Description: 189 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781478013631
  • 9781478014560
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Loss and wonder at the world's end.DDC classification:
  • 333.70982/76 23
LOC classification:
  • GE160.A7 O34 2021
Other classification:
  • SOC002010 | HIS033000
Contents:
The Earth as archive -- Alternative archives of the present -- An empire of skin -- Stolen images -- Dreamworlds of beavers.
Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.
List(s) this item appears in: New arrivals 2022
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Notes Date due Barcode
single unit book single unit book HAC Library - Holdings of the American Academy in Berlin HAC – 1st floor – Library Room – Open Stacks R (Reference collection) R:GE160.A7 O34 2021 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available Hardcover 2022-0051

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Earth as archive -- Alternative archives of the present -- An empire of skin -- Stolen images -- Dreamworlds of beavers.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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