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Écologie historique
Les paysages qui nous entourent sont un héritage du passé. L’écologie historique nous invite à remonter le temps pour mieux les interpréter, pour comprendre la biodiversité et le fonctionnement actuels des écosystèmes qui les constituent et, finalement, anticiper leurs trajectoires à venir. Écologie historique propose une synthèse complète et actualisée de ce champ interdisciplinaire qu’est l’écologie historique. Après avoir analysé l’importance du temps et de ses échelles en écologie ainsi que la délicate tâche d’inférer des trajectoires dynamiques passées à partir d’observations actuelles, cet ouvrage présente une approche critique des principales métho...
Gestion de la contamination fongique dans les collections de documents graphiques
Parmi les différents types de collections patrimoniales que nous devons conserver pour perpétuer la mémoire de l’humanité, les documents graphiques constituent une masse considérable qui ne diminue pas malgré l’essor du numérique. En effet, à ce jour, le papier reste le plus pérenne pour conserver les informations écrites. Toutefois, les documents sont sujets à de multiples menaces d’ordre physico-chimique et biologique, parmi lesquelles l’apparition des moisissures constitue l’un des problèmes les plus récurrents dans les fonds de documents graphiques. Les matériaux organiques entrant dans la constitution des documents sont tous vulnérables à l’attaque fongique, ...
Ethno-archaeology and Its Transfers
Eight papers from the EAA meeting held in Bournemouth in 1999, focusing on the technical rather than theoretical aspects of using ethnographic case studies. The case studies come from Siberia, Spain, France, Portugal, Africa, Indonesia and New Guinea and focus on techniques of agricultural and craft production and
The Power of Nature
In The Power of Nature archaeologists address the force and impact of nature relative to human knowledge, action, and volition. Case studies from around the world focusing on different levels of sociopolitical complexity—ranging from early agricultural societies to states and empires—address the ways in which nature retains the upper hand in human agentive environmental discourse, providing an opportunity for an insightful perspective on the current anthropological emphasis on how humans affect the environment. Climatic events, pathogens, and animals as nonhuman agents, ranging in size from viruses to mega-storms, have presented our species with dynamic conditions that overwhelm human ca...
A Pipeline Runs Through It
'Fascinating revelations' Max Hastings, Sunday Times 'An immensely valuable guide to a great and terrible industry' The Economist 'The book I have long been waiting for... Essential reading' Michael Klare Petroleum has always been used by humans: as an adhesive by Neanderthals, as a waterproofing agent in Noah's Ark and as a weapon during the Crusades. Its eventual extraction from the earth in vast quantities transformed light, heat and power. A Pipeline Runs Through It is a fresh, in-depth look at the social, economic, and geopolitical forces involved in our transition to the modern oil age. It tells an extraordinary origin story, from the pre-industrial history of petroleum through to larg...
Cargoes in Motion
An innovative collection of essays that foregrounds specific cargoes as a means to understand connectivity and mobility across the Indian Ocean world. Scholars have long appreciated the centrality of trade and commerce in understanding the connectivity and mobility that underpin human experience in the Indian Ocean region. But studies of merchant and commercial activities have paid little attention to the role that cargoes have played in connecting the disparate parts of this vast oceanic world. Drawing from the work of anthropologists, geographers, and historians, Cargoes in Motion tells the story of how material objects have informed and continue to shape processes of exchange across the I...
Conservation’s Roots
The ideas and practices that comprise “conservation” are often assumed to have arisen within the last two centuries. However, while conservation today has been undeniably entwined with processes of modernity, its historical roots run much deeper. Considering a variety of preindustrial European settings, this book assembles case studies from the medieval and early modern eras to demonstrate that practices like those advocated by modern conservationists were far more widespread and intentional than is widely acknowledged. As the first book-length treatment of the subject, Conservation’s Roots provides broad social, historical, and environmental context for the emergence of the nineteenth-century conservation movement.
