This book considers how we encounter and make meaning from extinction in diverse settings and cultures. It brings together an international and interdisciplinar

This book considers how we encounter and make meaning from extinction in diverse settings and cultures. It brings together an international and interdisciplinar

A history of scientific ideas about extinction that explains why we learned to value diversity as a precious resource at the same time as we learned to “think

The Anthropology of Extinction offers compelling explorations of issues of widespread concern.

We are currently facing the sixth mass extinction of species in the history of life on Earth, biologists claim—the first one caused by humans. Heise argues th