This book explores nature as an integral part of the social worlds conventionally studied by anthropologists. The book demonstrates not only the entanglement of natural and social things, but also the entwinement of analytical perspective and ethnographic material.

1. Nature: Introducing Anthropology on the Edge Kirsten Hastrup 2. More-Than-Human Sociality: A Call for Critical Description Anna Tsing 3. Qualifying Coastal Nature: Bio-Conservation Projects in South East India Frida Hastrup 4. Engaged World-Making: Movements of Sand, Sea, and People at Two Pacific Islands Maria Louise Bønnelykke Robertson and Cecilie Rubow 5. Political Ecology in a More-Than-Human World: Rethinking "Natural" Hazards Sarah Whatmore 6. Islands of Nature: Insular Objects and Frozen Spirits in Northern Mongolia Morten Axel Pedersen 7. Establishing a "Third Space": Anthropology and the Potentials of Transcending a Great Divide Andre Gingrich 8. The Inevitability of Nature as a Rhetorical Resource Steve Rayner and Clare Heyward 9. Divide and Rule: Nature and Society in a Global Forest Programme Signe Howell 10. Life at the Border: Nim Chimpsky et al. Gísli Pálsson 11. Human Activity Between Nature and Society: The Negotiation of Infertility in China Ayo Wahlberg 12. Broken Cosmologies: Climate, Water, and State in the Peruvian Andes Karsten Pærregaard 13: Of Maps and Men: Making Places and People in the Arctic Kirsten Hastrup 14. Designing Environments for Life Tim Ingold