Environmental Winds: Making the Global in Southwest China Herpetology the uniquely human ability to

the uniquely human ability to deny reality in the face of inarguable evidence - including the willful ignorance of our own inevitable deaths

An exciting but insignificant vignette of life under the British Raj

and physical anthropology

By vividly detailing the burgeoning effects of our cumulative presence

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Environmental Winds: Making the Global in Southwest China Herpetology the uniquely human ability toEnvironmental Winds challenges the notion that globalized social formations emerged solely in the Global North prior to impacting the Global South. Instead, such formations have been constituted, transformed, and propelled through diverse, site specific social interactions that complicate and defy divisions between 'global' and 'local.' The book brings the reader into the lives of Chinese scientists, officials, villagers, and expatriate