Blending a richly evocative narrative with rare, unpublished material as well as insights from ornithology, anthropology, and Plsson's own North Atlantic travels, The Last of Its Kind reveals how the…

Anthropology, it is often argued, is an art of translation. Recently, however, social theorists have raised serious doubts about the translator’s enterprise. Over the last few years the human social…

The contributors to this book focus on the relationship between nature and society from a variety of theoretical and ethnographic perspectives and emphasize the problems posed by the nature-culture dualism.