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This review article discusses Tim Ingold's edited volume, "The Appropriation of Nature: Essays on Human Ecology and Social Relations." The book explores the complex relationship between humans and nature, challenging conventional anthropological understandings of ecological adaptation and social relations. It argues against a simplistic view of humans adapting to a pre-existing environment, instead emphasizing the mutual constitution of human society and the natural world through practices of appropriation. The essays, drawing on diverse ethnographic examples, examine how different societies engage with and transform their environments, highlighting the social and cultural embeddedness of human-environmental interactions. The review praises the book's contribution to ecological anthropology and its critique of dualistic thinking, but also raises questions about the implications of the appropriation framework for understanding environmental issues.

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