The Anthropology of Extinction

The Anthropology of Extinction offers compelling explorations of issues of widespread concern.

Discusses extinction as a force shaping socio-cultural and biological life

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Accumulating Absence-Cultural Productions of the Sixth Extinction Genese Marie SodikoffPart 1. The Social Construction of Biotic Extinction1. A Species Apart: Ideology, Science, and the End of Life Janet Chernela2. From Ecocide to Genetic Rescue: Can Technoscience Save the Wild? Tracey Heatherington3. Totem and Taboo Reconsidered: Endangered Species and Moral Practice in Madagascar Genese Marie SodikoffPart 2. Endangered Species and Emergent Identities4. Tortoise Soup for the Soul: Finding a Space for Human History in Evolution's Laboratory Jill Constantino5. Global Environmentalism and the Emergence of Indigeneity: The Politics of Cultural and Biological Diversity in China Michael HathawayPart 3. Red-Listed Languages6. Last Words, Final Thoughts: Collateral Extinctions in Maliseet Language Death Bernard C. Perley7. Dying Young: Pidgins, Creoles, and Other Contact Languages as Endangered Languages Paul B. GarrettPart 4. Prehistories of an Apex Predator8. Demise of the Bet Hedgers: A Case Study of Human Impacts on Past and Present Lemurs of Madagascar Laurie R. Godfrey and Emilienne Rasoazanabary9. Disappearing Wildmen: Capture, Extirpation, and Extinction as Regular Components of Representations of Putative Hairy Hominoids Gregory ForthEpilogue: Prolegomenon for a New Totemism Peter M. WhiteleyList of ContributorsIndex