Duke University Press, 2021 Cloth: 978-1-4780-1363-1 | eISBN: 978-1-4780-2186-5 | Paper: 978-1-4780-1456-0 Library of Congress Classification GE160.A7O34 2021
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ABOUT THIS BOOK In Loss and Wonder at the World's End, Laura A. Ogden brings together animals, people, and things—from beavers, stolen photographs, lichen, American explorers, and birdsong—to catalog the ways environmental change and colonial history are entangled in the Fuegian Archipelago of southernmost Chile and Argentina. Repeated algal blooms have closed fisheries in the archipelago. Glaciers are in retreat. Extractive industries such as commercial forestry, natural gas production, and salmon farming along with the introduction of nonnative species are rapidly transforming assemblages of life. Ogden archives forms of loss—including territory, language, sovereignty, and life itself—as well as forms of wonder, or moments when life continues to flourish even in the ruins of these devastations. Her account draws on long-term ethnographic research with settler and Indigenous communities; archival photographs; explorer journals; and experiments in natural history and performance studies. Loss and Wonder at the World's End frames environmental change as imperialism's shadow, a darkness cast over the earth in the wake of other losses.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY Laura A. Ogden is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Dartmouth College, author of Swamplife: People, Gators, and Mangroves Entangled in the Everglades, coauthor of Gladesmen: Gator Hunters, Moonshiners, and Skiffers, and coeditor of The Coastal Everglades: The Dynamics of Social-Ecological Transformation in the South Florida Landscape.
REVIEWS
“One of the most brilliant and compelling aspects of this beautiful little book is Laura A. Ogden's voice. A woman's seasoned, feminist, highly attuned and tuned, expertly lived voice, it leads us graciously into a critical world of wonder and loss—a collective looking around at what could have been and might still be. Loss and Wonder at the World's End is sharply, fiercely loving. It teaches us to live and think differently. This is a masterful, inspiring, wholly original work.”
-- Kathleen Stewart, coauthor of The Hundreds
“In its freshness of vision, its first-person mode of presentation, its openheartedness, and its scattering of materials in delicate montages, Loss and Wonder at the World's End is such fun to read. Laura A. Ogden's persistent view of history throughout the text as multivalent, dense, and mysterious is wonderful.”
-- Michael T. Taussig, author of Mastery of Non-mastery in the Age of Meltdown
"Ogden’s book is a nonlinear presentation, a meticulously articulated variety of thought on the Fuegian world. It is many stories well told that continue evolving, and although its academic style is not always attractive to lay audiences, Loss and Wonder at the World’s End is a highly recommended, fun to read book for those interested in world boundaries, what lies beyond them, and their place within the legacy of imperialism."
-- Yoly Zentella Journal of Global South Studies
TABLE OF CONTENTS
The World's End: A Figure 1 Introduction. Loss and Wonder 4 The Explorer's Refrain: A Figure 15 1. The Earth as Archive 21 Arturo Escobar: A Figure 44 The Archival Earth: A Figure 47 2. Alternative Archives of the Present 51 Lichens on the Beach: A Figure 57 3. An Empire of Skin 62 The Anthropologist: A Figure 86 4. Stolen Images 91 Lewis Henry Morgan: A Figure 107 5. Dreamworlds of Beavers 111 Traces of Derrida: A Figure 127 Anne Chapman: A Figure 130 Conclusion. Birdsong 133 Gratitude: A Figuration 141 Notes 145 Bibliography 169 Index 183
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Duke University Press, 2021 Cloth: 978-1-4780-1363-1 eISBN: 978-1-4780-2186-5 Paper: 978-1-4780-1456-0
In Loss and Wonder at the World's End, Laura A. Ogden brings together animals, people, and things—from beavers, stolen photographs, lichen, American explorers, and birdsong—to catalog the ways environmental change and colonial history are entangled in the Fuegian Archipelago of southernmost Chile and Argentina. Repeated algal blooms have closed fisheries in the archipelago. Glaciers are in retreat. Extractive industries such as commercial forestry, natural gas production, and salmon farming along with the introduction of nonnative species are rapidly transforming assemblages of life. Ogden archives forms of loss—including territory, language, sovereignty, and life itself—as well as forms of wonder, or moments when life continues to flourish even in the ruins of these devastations. Her account draws on long-term ethnographic research with settler and Indigenous communities; archival photographs; explorer journals; and experiments in natural history and performance studies. Loss and Wonder at the World's End frames environmental change as imperialism's shadow, a darkness cast over the earth in the wake of other losses.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY Laura A. Ogden is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Dartmouth College, author of Swamplife: People, Gators, and Mangroves Entangled in the Everglades, coauthor of Gladesmen: Gator Hunters, Moonshiners, and Skiffers, and coeditor of The Coastal Everglades: The Dynamics of Social-Ecological Transformation in the South Florida Landscape.
REVIEWS
“One of the most brilliant and compelling aspects of this beautiful little book is Laura A. Ogden's voice. A woman's seasoned, feminist, highly attuned and tuned, expertly lived voice, it leads us graciously into a critical world of wonder and loss—a collective looking around at what could have been and might still be. Loss and Wonder at the World's End is sharply, fiercely loving. It teaches us to live and think differently. This is a masterful, inspiring, wholly original work.”
-- Kathleen Stewart, coauthor of The Hundreds
“In its freshness of vision, its first-person mode of presentation, its openheartedness, and its scattering of materials in delicate montages, Loss and Wonder at the World's End is such fun to read. Laura A. Ogden's persistent view of history throughout the text as multivalent, dense, and mysterious is wonderful.”
-- Michael T. Taussig, author of Mastery of Non-mastery in the Age of Meltdown
"Ogden’s book is a nonlinear presentation, a meticulously articulated variety of thought on the Fuegian world. It is many stories well told that continue evolving, and although its academic style is not always attractive to lay audiences, Loss and Wonder at the World’s End is a highly recommended, fun to read book for those interested in world boundaries, what lies beyond them, and their place within the legacy of imperialism."
-- Yoly Zentella Journal of Global South Studies
TABLE OF CONTENTS
The World's End: A Figure 1 Introduction. Loss and Wonder 4 The Explorer's Refrain: A Figure 15 1. The Earth as Archive 21 Arturo Escobar: A Figure 44 The Archival Earth: A Figure 47 2. Alternative Archives of the Present 51 Lichens on the Beach: A Figure 57 3. An Empire of Skin 62 The Anthropologist: A Figure 86 4. Stolen Images 91 Lewis Henry Morgan: A Figure 107 5. Dreamworlds of Beavers 111 Traces of Derrida: A Figure 127 Anne Chapman: A Figure 130 Conclusion. Birdsong 133 Gratitude: A Figuration 141 Notes 145 Bibliography 169 Index 183
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