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PublisherUniversity of Minnesota Press

ISBN-100816670277

ISBN-139780816670277

eBay Product ID (ePID)99626595

Product Key Features

Number of Pages224 Pages

Publication NameSwamplife : People, Gators, and Mangroves Entangled in the Everglades

LanguageEnglish

SubjectEnvironmental Conservation & Protection, Human Geography, Sociology / General, Ecology, Parks & Campgrounds

Publication Year2011

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaNature, Travel, Social Science

AuthorLaura A. Ogden

SeriesA Quadrant Book Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight9.5 Oz

Item Length8.4 in

Item Width7 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2011-003346

Dewey Edition22

Reviews" Swamplife is thoroughly compelling. It works at the cutting edge of theory without straying far from an extremely grounded, rich, and page-turning narrative style. There are few books like it in political ecology." --Paul Robbins, author of Political Ecology: A Critical Introduction, "Tangled swamps; alligator hunters; outlaws: Here is a multi-species ethnography that is really fun to read. The book just asks to be taught." --Anna Tsing, author of Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection, " Swamplife is thoroughly compelling. It works at the cutting edge of theory without straying far from an extremely grounded, rich, and page-turning narrative style. There are few books like it in political ecology." -Paul Robbins, author of Political Ecology: A Critical Introduction, "Tangled swamps; alligator hunters; outlaws: Here is a multi-species ethnography that is really fun to read. The book just asks to be taught." -Anna Tsing, author of Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal577.69/8270975939

Table Of ContentMap of Southern Florida and the Greater Everglades Watershed Map of Everglades National Park Acknowledgments 1. The Florida Everglades: An Entangled Landscape The Queen of the Everglades 2. Landscape Ethnography and the Politics of Nature The Notorious Ashley Gang 3. Earth, Fire and Flesh: Territorial Refrains The Theatrics of Everglades Outlaws 4. The Travels of Snakes, Mangroves, and Men The Gang Vanishes into the Mysterious Swamp 5. Searching for Paradise in the Florida Everglades The Story Doesn't End with the Ambush on the Sebastian River Bridge 6. Alligator Conservation, Commodities, and Tactics of Subversion Epilogue. The Bill Ashley Jungles: Trace Impressions of a Forgotten Landscape Notes Index

SynopsisLittle in North America is wilder than the Florida Everglades-a landscape of frightening reptiles, exotic plants in profusion, swarms of mosquitoes, and unforgiving heat. And yet, even from the early days of taming the wilderness with clearing and drainage, the Everglades has been considered fragile, unique, and in need of restorative interventions. Drawing on a decade of fieldwork with hunters in the Everglades, Laura A. Ogden explores the lives and labors of people, animals, and plants in this most delicate and tenacious ecosystem. Today, the many visions of the Everglades-protectionist, ecological, commercial, historical-have become a tangled web of contradictory practices and politics for conservation and for development. Yet within this entanglement, the place of people remains highly ambivalent. It is the role of people in the Everglades that interests Ogden, as she seeks to reclaim the landscape's long history as a place of human activity and, in doing so, discover what it means to be human through changing relations with other animals and plant life. Ogden tells this story through the lives of poor rural whites, gladesmen, epitomized in tales of the Everglades' most famous outlaws, the Ashley Gang. With such legends and lore on one side, and outsized efforts at drainage and development on the other, Swamplife strikes a rare balance, offering a unique insight into the hidden life of the Everglades-and into how an appreciation of oppositional culture and social class operates in our understanding of wilderness in the United States., Little in North America is wilder than the Florida Everglades--a landscape of frightening reptiles, exotic plants in profusion, swarms of mosquitoes, and unforgiving heat. And yet, even from the early days of taming the wilderness with clearing and drainage, the Everglades has been considered fragile, unique, and in need of restorative interventions. Drawing on a decade of fieldwork with hunters in the Everglades, Laura A. Ogden explores the lives and labors of people, animals, and plants in this most delicate and tenacious ecosystem. Today, the many visions of the Everglades--protectionist, ecological, commercial, historical--have become a tangled web of contradictory practices and politics for conservation and for development. Yet within this entanglement, the place of people remains highly ambivalent. It is the role of people in the Everglades that interests Ogden, as she seeks to reclaim the landscape's long history as a place of human activity and, in doing so, discover what it means to be human through changing relations with other animals and plant life. Ogden tells this story through the lives of poor rural whites, gladesmen, epitomized in tales of the Everglades' most famous outlaws, the Ashley Gang. With such legends and lore on one side, and outsized efforts at drainage and development on the other, Swamplife strikes a rare balance, offering a unique insight into the hidden life of the Everglades--and into how an appreciation of oppositional culture and social class operates in our understanding of wilderness in the United States.

LC Classification NumberGF504.F6O44 2011