[Reader-list] Invitation to a Lecture by Frédérique Apffel-Marglin on 8 December 2017 at CSDS

[Praveen Rai]

Centre for the Study of Developing Societies

invites you to a lecture





*Post-Materialist Science and Integral Ecology*

Experiments in the Peruvian High Amazon

by *Frédérique Apffel-Marglin*





*Shail Mayaram* will Chair

Friday, 8 December 2017, 4.30 pm
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CSDS Seminar
Room,
Tel: 011 23942199

29 Rajpur Road, Delhi
110054
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011 23943450

Please join us for tea at 4 pm
                                          email: jaya at csds.in





This lecture will focus on post-materialist science and integral ecology
based on the speaker’s personal experience as an academic anthropologist
and the new post-materialist scientific paradigm on cosmogenetic principle
mostly through the work of cosmologist Brian Swimme, Thomas Berry and Mary
Evelyn Tucker. Integral ecology not only integrates the human and non-human
world but also the material and the immaterial and rests on a rejection of
the consumerist society and the current economic institutions among others.
It will also cover the experiments carried out by the speaker in the
Peruvian Upper Amazon.



*Frédérique Apffel-Marglin* is a professor emerita of Anthropology at Smith
College, Massachusetts and Founder and Director of Sachamama Center for
Biocultural Regeneration, a non-profit organization in the Upper Peruvian
Amazon. She did field research among the temple dancers of Jagannath Temple
in Odisha in the mid-1970s and later on among agricultural communities in
coastal Odisha. Her research interests include ritual, gender, political
ecology, critiques of development, science studies, Andean-Amazonian
shamanism and rain forest ecology.



She has published 14 books and more than 60 articles which include her
latest book *Sacred Soil: Biochar and the Regeneration of the Earth*
(co-authored with Robert Tindall and David Shearer).



*Shail Mayaram* is Professor at the Centre for the Study of Developing
Societies.


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Praveen Rai
Academic Secretary
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
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