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Local Struggles with Entropy: Caipora and Other Demons

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The goals of sustainable development and of climate-change oriented policies, while important, are not the only, or the main agenda for anthropological activity. The specific contribution of anthropology to sustainable development lies in its peculiar ability to describe the diversity of human worlds and their interaction with non-human modes of existence. This task involves an active role in sustaining and promoting the production of diversity as well as the search for principles of justice which cut across different worlds.

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Barbosa de Almeida, M.W. (2017). Local Struggles with Entropy: Caipora and Other Demons. In: Brightman, M., Lewis, J. (eds) The Anthropology of Sustainability. Palgrave Studies in Anthropology of Sustainability. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56636-2_16

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