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The environment in anthropology : a reader in ecology, culture, and sustainable living /
The Environment in Anthropology presents ecology and current environmental studies from an anthropological point of view. From the classics to the most current scholarship, this text connects the theory and practice in environment and anthropology, providing readers with a strong intellectual founda...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2016]
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| Edición: | Second edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; General Introduction; SECTION 1. SO, WHAT IS ENVIRONMENTAL ANTHROPOLOGY?; 1. The Concept and Method of Cultural Ecology; 2. Smallholders, Householders; 3. False Forest History, Complicit Social Analysis: Rethinking Some West African Environmental Narratives; 4. Gender and Environment: A Feminist Political Ecology Perspective; 5. A View from a Point: Ethnoecology as Situated Knowledge; 6. Ethics Primer for University Students Intending to Become Natural Resources Managers and Administrators; SECTION 2. WHAT DOES POPULATION HAVE TO DO WITH IT?
- 7. Ester Boserup's Theory of Agrarian Change: A Critical Review8. The Benefits of the Commons; 9. 7 Billion and Counting; 10. Rural Household Demographics, Livelihoods, and the Environment; 11. Carrying Capacity's New Guise: Folk Models for Public Debate and Longitudinal Study of Environmental Change; 12. The Environment as Geopolitical Threat: Reading Robert Kaplan's "Coming Anarchy"; SECTION 3. WHAT ARE URBAN, RURAL, AND SUBURBAN ENVIRONMENTS?; 13. The Growth of World Urbanism; 14. Economic Growth and the Environment; 15. Bhopal: Vulnerability, Routinization, and the Chronic Disaster.
- 16. The Lawn-Chemical Economy and Its Discontents17. Addictive Economies and Coal Dependency: Methods of Extraction and Socioeconomic Outcomes in West Virginia, 1997-2009; 18. The Anti-Politics Machine: "Development" and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho; SECTION 4. HOW DOES GLOBALIZATION AFFECT ENVIRONMENT AND CULTURE?; 19. How Do We Know We Have Global Environmental Problems? Science and the Globalization of Environmental Discourse; 20. Bottled Water: The Pure Commodity in the Age of Branding; 21. Indigenous Initiatives and Petroleum Politics in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
- 22. Land Tenure and REDD+: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 23. Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection; SECTION 5. HOW DO IDENTITIES SHAPE ECOLOGICAL EXPERIENCES?; 24. Cultural Theory and Environmentalism; 25. Endangered Forests, Endangered People: Environmentalist Representations of Indigenous Knowledge; 26. The Nature of Gender: Gender, Work, and Environment; 27. "But I Know It's True": Environmental Risk Assessment, Justice, and Anthropology; 28. Bringing the Moral Economy Back in ... to the Study of 21st-Century Transnational Peasant Movements.
- 29. How to Queer Ecology: One Goose at a TimeSECTION 6. CAN BIODIVERSITY BE CONSERVED?; 30. Neoliberal Conservation: A Brief Introduction; 31. The Power of Environmental Knowledge: Ethnoecology and Environmental Conflicts in Mexican Conservation; 32. Radical Ecology and Conservation Science: An Australian Perspective; 33. Stolen Apes: The Illicit Trade in Chimpanzees, Gorillas, Bonobos, and Orangutans; 34. Difference and Conflict in the Struggle over Natural Resources: A Political Ecology Framework; SECTION 7. IS GREEN CONSUMERISM THE ANSWER?