Environmental anthropology : a historical reader / edited by Michael R. Dove and Carol Carpenter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dove, Michael, 1949-

Carpenter, Carol

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Blackwell anthologies in social and cultural anthropology ; 10.

Blackwell anthologies in social and cultural anthropology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human ecology--Cross-cultural studies.

Human ecology.

Ecologia humana.

Local Subjects:

Ecologia humana.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Aufsatzsammlung.

Physical Description:

xxi, 480 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

regular print

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2008.

Summary:

"Environmental Anthropology: A Historical Reader is a collection of historically significant readings, dating from early in the twentieth century up to the present, on the cross-cultural study of relations between people and their environment. Divided into five thematic sections, this collection provides rare insight into the evolution of environmental anthropology specifically and environmental studies more generally. These selections, along with extensive commentary by the volume's editors, offer a unique perspective on current interest in cross-cultural environmental relations."--Jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: Major historical currents in environmental anthropology / Michael R. Dove and Carol Carpenter

Part I: The nature-culture dichotomy. Indigenous management of tropical forest ecosystems : the case of the Kayapó Indians of the Brazilian Amazon / Darrell Addison Posey ; False forest history, complicit social analysis : rethinking some West African environmental narratives / James Fairhead and Melissa Leach ; Interest in cattle / E.E. Evans-Pritchard ; The cultural ecology of India's sacred cattle / Marvin Harris

Part II: Ecology and social organization. Seasonal variations of the Eskimo : a study in social morphology / Marcel Mauss ; The Great Basin Shoshonean Indians : an example of a family level of sociocultural integration / Julian H. Steward ; Ecologic relationships of ethnic groups in Swat, North Pakistan / Fredrik Barth ; The wet and the dry : traditional irrigation in Bali and Morocco / Clifford Geertz ; Critical pressures on food supply and their economic effects / Raymond Firth ; How the Enga cope with frost : responses to climatic perturbations in the central highlands of New Guinea / Eric Waddell

Part III: Methodological challenges and debates. An ethnoecological approach to shifting agriculture / Harold C. Conklin ; Slash-and-burn agriculture : a closer look at its implications for settlement patterns / Robert L. Carneiro ; Ritual regulation of environmental relations among a New Guinea people / Roy A. Rappaport ; Why hunters gather : optimal foraging and the Aché of Eastern Paraguay / Kristen Hawkes, Kim Hill, and James F. O'Connell ; Foragers, genuine or spurious? : situating the Kalahari San in history / Jacqueline S. Solway and Richard B. Lee ; Links and boundaries : reconsidering the Alpine village as ecosystem / Robert McC. Netting

Part IV: The politics of natural resources and the environment. Forest knowledge, forest transformation : political contingency, historical ecology, and the renegotiation of nature in Central Seram / Roy Ellen ; Articulating indigenous identity in Indonesia : resource politics and the tribal slot / Tania Murray Li ; Green dots, pink hearts : displacing politics from the Malaysian rain forest / J. Peter Brosius ; Becoming a tribal elder, and other green development fantasies / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

Part V: Knowing the environment. People into places : Zafimaniry concepts of clarity / Maurice Bloch ; Pleasant places, past times, and sheltered identity in rural East Anglia / Charles O. Frake ; Effects of conscious purpose on human adaptation / Gregory Bateson ; Globes and spheres : the topology of environmentalism / Tim Ingold.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Environmental anthropology.

ISBN:

9781405111256

1405111259

9781405111379

1405111372

OCLC:

122701478

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