Ecologies of the Heart Emotion, Belief, and the Environment

by Anderson, E. N.

• ISBN13: 9780195090109
• ISBN10: 0195090101
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-03-28
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This book treats the ways that humans process information in relation toresource management. Anderson answers the question of why people hold beliefsabout the environment that seem "counterfactual" -- against the facts -- tomodern scientists. Ecologies of the Heart shows these beliefs areunderstandable and have an empirical basis in solving the world ecologicalcrisis.

Author Biography

E. N. Anderson is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Riverside.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Landscape with Figures	p. 3
Feng-Shui: Ideology and Ecology	p. 15
Chinese Nuttitional Therapy	p. 28
Learning from the Land Otter: Religious Representation of Traditional Resource Management	p. 54
Managing the Rainforest: Maya Agriculture in the Town of the Wild Plums	p. 73
Needs and Human Nature	p. 85
Information Processing: Rational and Irrational Transcended	p. 100
Culture: Ecology in a Wider Context	p. 123
in and Out of Institutions	p. 135
The Disenchanted: Religion as Ecological Control, and Its Modern Fate	p. 160
A Summary, and Some Suggestions	p. 174
Notes	p. 185
References	p. 215
Index	p. 235
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