Environmentalism: The View from Anthropology

by Milton,Kay

• ISBN13: 9780415094757
• ISBN10: 0415094755
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1993-12-06
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Located in a wide spectrum of current research and practice this book offers an original perspective on what is probably the best-known issue of the late twentieth century.

Table of Contents

Editor's Preface	p. ix
Environmentalism and Anthropology	p. 1
Environmentalism	p. 18
Globes and Spheres	p. 31
Between Science and Shamanism	p. 43
Standing in for Nature	p. 59
All Animals Are Equal but Some Are Cetaceans	p. 73
The Making of an Environmental Doctrine	p. 85
The Precautionary Principle	p. 97
Tribal Metaphorization of Human-Nature Relatedness	p. 112
Rhetoric, Practice and Incentive in the Face of the Changing Times	p. 126
Natural Symbols and Natural History	p. 144
Local Awareness of the Soil Environment in the Papua New Guinea Highlands	p. 160
Political Decision-Making	p. 174
Environmental Protest, Bureaucratic Closure	p. 189
Eating Green(S)	p. 205
The Resurgence of Romanticism	p. 219
Index	p. 233
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