Ecological Nostalgias

Olivia Ange is an Associate Professor at Universite Libre de Bruxelles. Besides a series of papers, she is the author of Barter and Social Regeneration in the Argentinean Andes (Berghahn, 2018), and co-editor of Anthropology and Nostalgia (Berghahn, 2014). David Berliner is a Professor of Anthropology at Universite Libre de Bruxelles. He is the co-editor of Learning Religion (Berghahn, 2007), Anthropology and Nostalgia (Berghahn, 2014) and World Heritage on the Ground (Berghahn, 2016).

List of Figures



Introduction

Olivia Ange and David Berliner



Chapter 1. Thinking Through Nostalgia in Anthropologies of the Environment and Ethnographies of Landscape

Roy Ellen



Chapter 2. High Arctic Nostalgia: Thule and the Ecology of Mind

Kirsten Hastrup



Chapter 3. Nostalgic Confessions in the French Cevennes: Politics of Longings in the Neo-Peasants Initiatives

Madeleine Sallustio



Chapter 4. The Nature of Loss: Ecological Nostalgia and Cultural Politics in Amazonia

Casey High



Chapter 5. Ecological Nostalgias and Interspecies Affect in the Highland Potato Fields of Cuzco (Peru)

Olivia Ange



Chapter 6. The Village and the Hamlet in the Mixe Highlands of Oaxaca, Mexico: Nostalgic Commitments to Working and Living together

Perig Pitrou



Chapter 7. Peaceful Countryside: Ecologies of Longing and the Temporality of Flux in Contemporary Mongolia

Richard Irvine



Chapter 8. Melt in the Future Subjunctive

Cymene Howe



Afterword

Dominic Boyer



Index