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Summary
Summary
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
Author Notes
Michael R. Dove is Margaret K. Musser Professor of Social 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.
Reviews 1
Choice Review
This reader provides an excellent sampling of classic anthropological writings on human ecology and environments. The writings range from classic accounts by Marcel Mauss and E. E. Evans-Pritchard through the cultural ecology of Julian Steward, Marvin Harris, and others to up-to-the-minute writing by Anna Tsing and Tania Murray Li. Selections range from extremely bioscientific (Kristen Hawkes et al.) to extremely humanistic and interpretive (Gregory Bateson, Tim Ingold). The editors have managed their selections such that a single volume can provide both a truly comprehensive survey of the field and a range of genuine classics (new pieces by Tsing, Li, et al. are certainly classics-to-be)--articles that deserve their wide reputation. Some, however, have been abridged in the process. One of the best pieces in the volume is the editors' 85-page introduction, which gives a balanced yet critical overview of environmental anthropology. In comparison with other readers on this general topic, the present one focuses on truly influential, widely cited works and is more balanced and comprehensive. Very highly recommended for courses in environmental or ecological anthropology, conservation biology, and human ecology. Summing Up: Essential. All levels/libraries. E. N. Anderson emeritus, University of California, Riverside
Table of Contents
| List of Figures and Tables | p. xi |
| Editors' Biographical Notes | p. xiii |
| Preface | p. xiv |
| Acknowledgments | p. xvii |
| Text Credits | p. xviii |
| Introduction: Major Historical Currents in Environmental Anthropology | p. 1 |
| Part I The Nature-Culture Dichotomy | p. 87 |
| 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 Kayapo Indians of the Brazilian Amazon | p. 89 |
| 2 False Forest History, Complicit Social Analysis: Rethinking Some West African Environmental Narratives | p. 102 |
| How cattle problematize the nature-culture divide: From Evans-Pritchard's "cattle complex" to Harris' "sacred cows" and beyond | |
| 3 Interest in Cattle | p. 118 |
| 4 The Cultural Ecology of India's Sacred Cattle | p. 138 |
| Part II Ecology and Social Organization | p. 155 |
| Early essays on social organization and ecology: Mauss and Steward | |
| 5 Seasonal Variations of the Eskimo: A Study in Social Morphology | p. 157 |
| 6 The Great Basin Shoshonean Indians: An Example of a Family Level of Sociocultural Integration | p. 168 |
| Beyond Steward: "Ecosystems with human beings in them" in Barth and Geertz | |
| 7 Ecologic Relationships of Ethnic Groups in Swat, North Pakistan | p. 181 |
| 8 The Wet and the Dry: Traditional Irrigation in Bali and Morocco | p. 190 |
| "Natural" disasters and social order: Response and revelation in Firth and Waddell | |
| 9 Critical Pressures on Food Supply and their Economic Effects | p. 202 |
| 10 How the Enga Cope with Frost: Responses to Climatic Perturbations in the Central Highlands of New Guinea | p. 223 |
| Part III Methodological Challenges and Debates | p. 239 |
| Ethnoecology and the defense of swidden agriculture: Conklin and Carneiro | |
| 11 An Ethnoecological Approach to Shifting Agriculture | p. 241 |
| 12 Slash-and-Burn Agriculture: A Closer Look at its Implications for Settlement Patterns | p. 249 |
| Natural science models of resource-use: From Rappaport's cybernetics to the optimal foraging of Hawkes, Hill, and O'Connell | |
| 13 Ritual Regulation of Environmental Relations among a New Guinea People | p. 254 |
| 14 Why Hunters Gather: Optimal Foraging and the Ache of Eastern Paraguay | p. 265 |
| The bounded and balanced community: Solway and Lee, and Netting | |
| 15 Foragers, Genuine or Spurious?: Situating the Kalahari San in History | p. 284 |
| 16 Links and Boundaries: Reconsidering the Alpine Village as Ecosystem | p. 309 |
| Part IV The Politics of Natural Resources and the Environment | p. 319 |
| Indigeneity and natural resource politics: Ellen and Li | |
| 17 Forest Knowledge, Forest Transformation: Political Contingency, Historical Ecology, and the Renegotiation of Nature in Central Seram | p. 321 |
| 18 Articulating Indigenous Identity in Indonesia: Resource Politics and the Tribal Slot | p. 339 |
| Environmental campaigns and collaborations: Brosius and Tsing | |
| 19 Green Dots, Pink Hearts: Displacing Politics from the Malaysian Rain Forest | p. 363 |
| 20 Becoming a Tribal Elder, and Other Green Development Fantasies | p. 393 |
| Part V Knowing the Environment | p. 423 |
| Social identity and perception of the landscape: Frake and Bloch | |
| 21 People into Places: Zafimaniry Concepts of Clarity | p. 425 |
| 22 Pleasant Places, Past Times, and Sheltered Identity in Rural East Anglia | p. 435 |
| The limits of knowledge and its implications for understanding environmental relations: Bateson and Ingold | |
| 23 Effects of Conscious Purpose on Human Adaptation | p. 457 |
| 24 Globes and Spheres: The Topology of Environmentalism | p. 462 |
| Index of Subjects | p. 471 |
| Index of Names | p. 478 |
