Description
| Product ID: | 9781032285900 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Ocean and Island Studies |
| Title: | Anthropology, Islands, and the Search for Meaning in the Anthropocene |
| Authors: | Author: Justin Armstrong |
| Page Count: | 68 |
| Subjects: | Memoirs, Memoirs, Social and cultural anthropology, Human geography, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Human geography |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Part ethnography, part memoir, and part critical reflection on the Anthropocene, this book examines the ways that islands form and inform human experiences of the everyday and the extraordinary. Part ethnography, part memoir, and part critical reflection on the Anthropocene, this book examines the ways that islands form and inform human experiences of the everyday and the extraordinary. Utilizing carefully considered anthropological perspectives drawn from over a decade of anthropological fieldwork, the author employs islands as a complex set of lenses to examine the ways that we are intimately connected, separated, and divided from ourselves, one another, and the planet. Moving across time, place and disciplinary boundaries, this book traces a narrative route from the remote islands of Micronesia to the subarctic expanses of northern Iceland, all in service of gaining a deeper understanding of the cultural resonance of islands. This book offers the reader a type of ideological travel guide, one that exchanges restaurant reviews and hotel recommendations for pathways of reflection and new modes of seeing and being in the world. It will be of interest to scholars in the social sciences and humanities, and readers from human geography, cultural studies, sociology, philosophy and American studies. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-11-02 |
