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Title:
Environmental anthropology : a historical reader / edited by Michael R. Dove and Carol Carpenter.
Publisher:
Blackwell Pub.,
Copyright Date:
2008
Description:
xxi, 480 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Subject:
Human ecology--Cross-cultural studies.
Other Authors:
Dove, Michael, 1949-
Carpenter, Carol.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Major historical currents in environmental anthropology / Michael R. Dove and Carol Carpenter -- Indigenous management of tropical forest ecosystems : the case of the Kayapó Indians of the Brazilian Amazon / Darrell Addison Posey -- False forest history, complicit social analysis : rethinking some West African environnmental narratives / James Fairhead and Melissa Leach -- Interest in cattle / E.E. Evans-Pritchard -- The cultural ecology of India's sacred cattle / Marvin Harris -- Seasonal variations of the Eskimo : a study in social morphology / Marcel Mauss -- The Great Basin Shoshonean Indians : an example of a family level of sociocultural integration / Julian H. Steward -- Ecologic relationships of ethnic groups in Swat, North Pakistan / Fredrik Barth -- The wet and the dry : traditional irrigation in Bali and Morocco / Clifford Geertz -- Critical pressures on food supply and their economic effects / Raymond Firth -- How the Enga cope with frost : responses to climatic perturbations in the central highlands of New Guinea / Eric Waddell -- An ethnoecological approach to shifting agriculture / Harold C. Conklin -- Slash-and-burn agriculture : a closer look at its implications for settlement patterns / Robert L. Carneiro -- Ritual regulation of environmental relations among a New Guinea people / Roy A. Rappaport -- Why hunters gather : optimal foraging and the Aché of Eastern Paraguay / Kristen Hawkes, Kim Hill, and James F. O'Connell -- Foragers, genuine or spurious? Situating the Kalahari San in history / Jacqueline S. Solway and Richard B. Lee -- Links and boundaries : reconsidering the Alpine village as ecosystem / Robert McC. Netting -- Forest knowledge, forest transformation : political contingency, historical ecology, and the renegotiation of nature in Central Seram / Roy Ellen -- Articulating indigenous identity in Indonesia : resource politics and the tribal slot / Tania Murray Li -- Green dots, pink hearts : displacing politics from the Malaysian rain forest / J. Peter Brosius -- Becoming a tribal elder, and other green development fantasies / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing -- People into places : Zafimaniry concepts of clarity / Maurice Bloch -- Pleasant places, past times, and sheltered identity in rural East Anglia / Charles O. Frake -- Effects of conscious purpose on human adaptation / Gregory Bateson -- Globes and spheres : the topology of environmentalism / Tim Ingold.
Series:
Blackwell anthologies in social & cultural anthropology ; 10
ISBN:
1405111372 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781405111379 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1405111259 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781405111256 (hardcover : alk. paper)
LCCN:
2007012825
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)
N2AX314 -- Divine Word College - Matthew Jacoby Library (Epworth)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)

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