New directions in anthropology and environment : intersections / Carole L. Crumley, editor, with A. Elizabeth van Deventer and Joseph J. Fletcher.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Crumley, Carole L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human ecology.

Anthropology.

Human ecology--Cross-cultural studies.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

xi, 308 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Walnut Creek, CA : AltaMira Press, [2001]

Summary:

Crumley has brought together top scholars from across anthropology in a benchmark volume that displays the range of exciting new work on the complex relationship between humans and the environment. Designed for classroom use in and beyond anthropology, this book will be important for all scholars and non-academics interested in the relation between our species and its biotic and built environments.

Contents:

Part 1 Defining Environment and Interpreting Nature

1 Nature in the Making / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing 3

2 Linking Language and Environment: A Coevolutionary Perspective / Luisa E. Maffi 24

3 Cognitive Anthropology and the Environment / Willett Kempton 49

4 Archaeology and Environmental Changes / Donald L. Hardesty, Don D. Fowler 72

5 Interdisciplinary Borrowing in Environmental Anthropology and the Critique of Modern Science / Michael R. Dove 90

Part 2 Beliefs, Values, and Environmental Justice

6 Political Ecology and Constructions of Environment in Biological Anthropology / Thomas L. Leatherman, R. Brooke Thomas 113

7 Anthropology and Environmental Justice: Analysts, Advocates, Mediators, and Troublemakers / Barbara Rose Johnston 132

8 The Politics of Ethnographic Presence: Sites and Topologies in the Study of Transnational Movements / J. Peter Brosius 150

9 Do Anthropologists Need Religion, and Vice Versa? Adventures and Dangers in Spiritual Ecology / Leslie E. Sponsel 177

Part 3 Application and Engagement

10 Historical Ecology: Landscapes of Change in the Pacific Northwest / Kathryn R. Winthrop 203

11 Getting the Dirt Out: The Culture and Political Economy of Urban Land in the United States / Alice E. Ingerson 223

12 Environmental Anthropology at Sea / Bonnie J. McCay 254

13 The Discourse of Environmental Partnerships / Eric C. Poncelet 273.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0742502643

0742502651

OCLC:

44627260