The chapters in this collection contest the framework of knowledge that has deadlocked nature and culture, tradition and modernity, scientific and indigenous, and in doing so makes a case for the value of rethinking knowledge beyond the nature-culture divide.CONTENTS:Foreword—Crain Soudien.Contested Ecologies: Nature and Knowledge—L. Green.A FIRST INTERVENTION: NATURE VERSUS CULTURE.Notes Towards a Political Ontology of “Environmental” Conflicts—M. Blaser.Economic Development and Cosmopolitical Re-involvement: From Necessity to Sufficiency—E. Viveiros de Castro.On Animism, Modernity/Colonialism, and the African Order of Knowledge: Provisional Reflections—H. Garuba.A SECOND INTERVENTION: SPACE, TIME, LIFE.About “Mariano’s Archive”: Ecologies of Stories—M. de la Cadena.The Day-World Hakwri and Its Topologies: On Palikur Alternatives to the Idea of Space—L. Green.Cultivating Krag, Refreshing Gees: Ecologies of Wellbeing in Namaqualand—J.B. Cohen.Are Petitioners Makers of Rain? Rains, Worlds, and Survival in Conflict-Torn Buhera, Zimbabwe—A. Nhemachena.Metaphors for Climate Adaptation from Zimbabwe: Zephaniah Phiri Maseko and the Marriage of Water and Soil—C. Mabeza.A THIRD INTERVENTION: SCIENCES AND PUBLICS.Engagements Between Disparate Knowledge Traditions: Toward Doing Difference Generatively and in Good Faith—H. Verran.The Making of Sutherlandia as Medicine—D. Gibson and S. Kilian.Conservation Conversations: Improving the Dialogue Between Fishers and Fisheries Science Along the Benguela Coast—T-A. Anderson, K. Draper, G. Duggan, L. Green, A. Jarre, J. Rogerson, S. Ragaller, and M. van Zyl.Cape Flats Nature: Rethinking Urban Ecologies—T. Katzschner.Spotting the Leopard: Fieldwork, Science, and Leopard Behavior—I. Glenn.Contesting Ecological Collapse: Rapa Nui, the Island at the End of the World—D. Turnbull.Closing Remarks from the Conclusion of the Contested Ecologies Writing Workshop, September 2011—E. Viveiros de Castro.