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
List of Figures and Tables.
Editors' Biographical Information.
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
Text Credits.
Introduction: Major Historical Currents in Environmental Anthropology: Michael R. Dove and Carol Carpenter.
Part I: The Nature-Culture Dichotomy:.
Questioning the Nature-Culture Dichotomy: From Posey’s Indigenous Knowledge to Fairhead and Leach’s Politics of Knowledge.
1. Indigenous Management of Tropical Forest Ecosystems: The Case of the Kayapó Indians of the Brazilian Amazon: Darrell Posey.
2. False Forest History, Complicit Social Analysis: Rethinking Some West African Environmental Narratives: James Fairhead and Melissa Leach.
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