Accumulating absence : cultural productions of the sixth extinction / Genese Marie Sodikoff -- A species apart : ideology, science, and the end of life / Janet Chernela -- From ecocide to genetic rescue : can technoscience save the wild? / Tracey Heatherington -- Totem and taboo reconsidered : endangered species and moral practice in Madagascar / Genese Marie Sodikoff -- Tortoise soup for the soul : finding a space for human history in evolution's laboratory / Jill Constantino -- Global environmentalism and the emergence of indigeneity : the politics of cultural and biological diversity in China / Michael Hathaway -- Last words, final thoughts : collateral extinctions in Maliseet language death / Bernard C. Perley -- Dying young : Pidgins, Creoles, and other contact languages as endangered languages / Paul B. Garrett -- Demise of the bet hedgers : a case study of human impacts on past and present lemurs of Madagascar / Laurie R. Godfrey and Emilienne Rasoazanabary -- Disappearing wildmen : capture, extirpation, and extinction as regular components of representations of putative hairy hominoids / Gregory Forth -- Epilogue : Prolegomenon for a new totemism / Peter M. Whiteley