Ecologies of the heart : emotion, belief, and the environment / E.N. Anderson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anderson, Eugene Newton, Jr., 1941-

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental policy.

Environmental protection.

Human ecology.

Environmental sciences--Philosophy.

Environmental sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 256 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Ecologies of the Heart, Anderson reveals how religion and other folk beliefs helped pre-industrial peoples control and protect their resources. He also presents a coherent view of long-term, sustainable policies for the environment.

Contents:

Contents; 1. Landscape with Figures; 2. Feng-shui: Ideology and Ecology; 3. Chinese Nutritional Therapy; 4. Learning from the Land Otter: Religious Representation of Traditional Resource Management; 5. Managing the Rainforest: Maya Agriculture in the Town of the Wild Plums; 6. Needs and Human Nature; 7. Information Processing: Rational and Irrational Transcended; 8. Culture: Ecology in a Wider Context; 9. In and Out of Institutions; 10. The Disenchanted: Religion as Ecological Control, and Its Modern Fate; 11. A Summary, and Some Suggestions; Notes; References; Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1996.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-233) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-756061-X

1-280-52747-1

0-19-535818-X

1-4294-1548-7

OCLC:

191948492