Environmental Anthropology: A Historical Reader
- ISBN-10
- 1405111372
- ISBN-13
- 9781405111379
- Series
- Environmental Anthropology
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 502
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007-12-03
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Authors
- Michael R. Dove, Carol Carpenter
Description
Environmental Anthropology: A 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. Provides the historical perspective that is typically missing from recent work in environmental anthropology Includes an extensive intellectual history and commentary by the volume’s editors Offers a unique perspective on current interest in cross-cultural environmental relations Divided into five thematic sections: (1) the nature/culture divide; (2) relationship between environment and social organization; (3) methodological debates and innovations; (4) politics and practice; and (5) epistemological issues of environmental anthropology Organized into a series of paired papers, which ‘speak’ to each other, designed to encourage readers to make connections that they might not customarily make
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