Environmental Anthropology
A Historical Reader
Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
1. Auflage Dezember 2007
502 Seiten, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
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
Acknowledgments.
Editor's Biographical Information.
Original Sources.
Introduction: Major Historical Currents in Environmental
Anthropology.
Part I: The Nature-Culture Dichotomy.
Part II: Ecology And Social Organization.
Part III: Methodological Challenges And Debates.
Part IV: The Politics of Natural Resources and the
Environment.
Part V: Knowing the Environment
Choice, November 2008
"Distinguished environmental anthropologists Michael Dove and Carol Carpenter provide a great service for both professional colleagues and students in this specialization through a wonderful benchmark sampling of articles from its history with an emphasis on its formative and mature development during the decades of the 1950s through the 1990s. The progression of different phases and approaches in the history of environmental anthropology is exceedingly well illustrated through the five thematic parts of this anthology. The chapters are placed in context through an extensive, informative, and insightful introduction. This anthology goes a long way toward filling one of the previously empty niches among the textbooks available for this specialization and nicely complements rather than competes with them. It is also indispensable as a reference work."
Leslie E. Sponsel, Director, Ecological Anthropology Program, University of Hawaii"This volume is the foundational volume on environmental anthropology I wish I had put under my belt a decade ago. Selected with scrupulous care and introduced with illuminating commentary, this collection is Indispensable both for its intellectual depth and breadth."
-James C. Scott, Yale University
"This reader is exactly what professors like me have long dreamed of, but never had, in teaching environmental anthropology. Dove and Carpenter, two of the field's most distinguished scholars, have assembled and integrated the perfect collection of classic and recent essays on humans and the environment. They successfully develop the key historic themes of the field which are then fleshed out through a careful selection of theoretical debates and ethnographic cases written by some of the best anthropological minds of the past and present."
-Robert E. Rhoades, University of Georgia
Ecology, Professor of Anthropology, Curator of Anthropology at the
Peabody Museum, and Coordinator of the joint doctoral program in
anthropology and environmental studies, Yale University. He is the
author of numerous books and papers on the anthropology of
conservation and development. His most recent book is Conserving
Nature in Culture: Case Studies from Southeast Asia (co-edited
with P. Sajise and A. Doolittle, 2005).
Carol Carpenter is Senior Lecturer in Social Ecology and
Anthropology, Yale University. Her teaching and research focus on
theories of social ecology; social aspects of sustainable
development and conservation; and gender in agrarian and ecological
systems.
