引述 :『 Roy Ellen and Katsuyoshi Fukui (eds). Redefining Nature: Ecology, Culture and Domestication. Oxford and Washington: Berg, 1996. xxii, 665pp., illust., maps, tables, bibliog., index. UK[pounds]39.95 (Hc.), ISBN 1-85973-130-9; UK[pounds]l9.95 (Pb.), ISBN 1-85973-135-X. There are some fundamental difficulties that face anthropologists writing about nature, especially when the desire for scientific recognition, or the incorporation of scientific findings into analysis, drive the use of the term. Roy Ellen, in his introduction to the collection of papers here, meets this difficulty head on. He provides a series of questions, variations on those which many have asked, about the ontological status of the concept of nature. Is a form of Cartesian dualism inevitable in discussions which use nature in the frame of their inquiries? And if so, how can anthropologists combine their own belief in the validity of the concept 'nature' (a category with a real corollary in human perception), with the implications that so many of their interlocutors' words and actions have to the effect that they do not recognise such a distinction?』