Uncommon ground : cultural landscapes and environmental values / Veronica Strang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Strang, Veronica.

Series:

Explorations in anthropology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human ecology--Australia.

Human ecology.

Landscape changes.

Landscape assessment.

Australia.

Landscape assessment--Australia.

Landscape changes--Australia.

Physical Description:

xiv, 309 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Berg, 1997.

Summary:

With increasing international concern about green issues and the apparent failure of mechanistic solutions to complex problems, Uncommon Ground provides a timely understanding of the cultural values that underpin human-environmental relations. Through a comparison of two very different groups, the Aboriginal people and the white cattle farmers of Far North Queensland, Uncommon Ground explores how the human-environmental relationship is culturally constructed.

This highly topical study examines the long-term conflicts over land in Australia, which have brought to the surface each group's environmental values. The author considers how these values are acquired, and the universal and cultural factors that lead to their development. Major emphasis is put on the cultural forms that create and express environmental values for the Aborigines and the white pastoralists.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-297) and index.

ISBN:

1859739466

1859739512

OCLC:

37831954