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List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Note on Orthography Introduction: Nature Beyond the ‘Ontological Turn’ Chapter 1. What Black Elk Left Unsaid Chapter 2. Comparative Natures in Melanesia Chapter 3. Political Contingency, Historical Ecology, and the Renegotiation of Nature Appendix: The Consequences of Deforestation – A Nuaulu Text from Rouhua Seram 1994 Chapter 4. Indigenous Environmental Knowledge and its Transformations Chapter 5. From Ethno-science to Science Chapter 6. Local and Scientific Understandings of Forest Diversity Chapter 7. Why Aren’t the Nuaulu Like the Matsigenka? Chapter 8. Roots, Shoots and Leaves – The Art of Weeding Chapter 9. Tools, Agency and the Category of ‘Living Things’ Chapter 10. Is There a Role for Ontologies in Understanding Plant Knowledge Systems? References Index
