Zoom

Land of Famished Beings: West Papuan Theories of Hunger

Name: Land of Famished Beings: West Papuan Theories of Hunger
Brand: Duke University Press
SKU: 9781478032038
Price: 28.99 USD
Availability: InStock

$28.99

Hurry Up! Only 139 Left in Stock!

Out of stock >

Guarantee safe & Secure checkout

Availability: In Stock

Contributors:

Sophie Chao

Publisher:

Duke University Press

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Social Science

Book Subcategory:

Anthropology, Cultural & Ethnic Studies, Indigenous Studies

Book Topic:

Cultural & Social, Asian Studies

Shipping & Return +

The product is eligible for a complimentary return within 30 days from the date of purchase. Furthermore, individual items are shipped within 24 hours of receiving the order.

Rating and Reviews +

Specifications +

Release Date:

8/8/2025

ISBN 13:

9781478032038

Weight:

0.85 lbs

Size:

8.90 x 5.90 x 0.80 inches

Pages:

272

Mint Condition +

product description

Description

In Land of Famished Beings, Sophie Chao examines how Indigenous Marind communities understand and theorize hunger in lowland West Papua, a place where industrial plantation expansion and settler-colonial violence are radically reconfiguring ecologies, socialities, and identities. Instead of seeing hunger as an individual, biophysical state defined purely in nutritional, quantitative, or human terms, Chao investigates how hunger traverses variably situated humans, animals, plants, institutions, infrastructures, spirits, and sorcerers. When approached through the lens of Indigenous Marind philosophies, practices, and protocols, hunger reveals itself to be a multiple, more-than-human, and morally imbued modality of being--one whose effects are no less culturally crafted or contested than food and eating. In centering Indigenous feminist theories of hunger, Chao offers new ways of thinking about the relationship between the environment, food, and nourishment in an age of self-consuming capitalist growth. She also considers how Indigenous theories invite anthropologists to reimagine the ethics and politics of ethnographic writing and the responsibilities, hesitations, and compromises that shape anthropological commitments in and beyond the field.

About the Author
Sophie Chao is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Sydney, author of In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua, and coeditor of The Promise of Multispecies Justice, both also published by Duke University Press.

Land of Famished Beings: West Papuan Theories of Hunger

Customer Reviews

Description

Recently Viewed Products

Recently viewed products

Secure Payment

Online Offers

Quick Refunds

Curated Items