This chronicle of natural history argues that the modern environmental crisis and rise in science skepticism codeveloped with the historic distancing of scientific knowledge from folk knowledge

Michael R. Dove is the Margaret K. Musser Professor of Social Ecology and professor and curator of anthropology at Yale University, and author of Bitter Shade: The Ecological Challenge of Human Consciousness. He has carried out decades of field research in Asia and now lives in Killingworth, CT.