Environment in Anthropology : A Reader in Ecology, Culture, and Sustainable Living

by Haenn, Nora

• ISBN13: 9780814736371
• ISBN10: 0814736378
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-12-01
• Publisher: New York University Press

Summary

The Environment in Anthropologypresents ecology and current environmental studies from an anthropological point of view. From the classics to the most current scholarship, this book connects the theory and practice in environment and anthropology, giving readers a strong intellectual foundation as well as offering practical tools for solving environmental problems.Haenn and Wilk pose the most urgent questions of environmental protection: How are environmental problems mediated by cultural values? What are the environmental effects of urbanization? When do environmentalists get in conflict with indigenous peoples? How can we assess the impact of "environmentally correct" businesses such as the Body Shop? They also cover the fundamental topics of population growth, large scale development, biodiversity conservation, sustainable environmental management, indigenous groups, consumption, and globalization.Balancing landmark essays with cutting-edge scholarship, bridging theory and practice, and offering suggestions for further reading and new directions for research,The Environment in Anthropologyis the ideal introduction to a burgeoning field.Contributors include: J. Peter Brosius, Billie DeWalt, Arturo Escobar, Akhil Gupta, Caren Kaplan, Conrad Kottak, David Maybury-Lewis, B.J. McCay, Kay Milton, Virginia Nazarea, Robert Netting, Vandana Shiva, Julian Steward, and Susan C. Stonich.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
General Introduction to the Reader	1	(2)
SECTION 1: Theoretical Foundations	3	(70)
1 The Concept and Method of Cultural Ecology	5	(5)
Julian Steward
2 Smallholders, Householders	10	(5)
Robert Netting
3 Ecosystem Ecology in Biology and Anthropology	15	(12)
Emilio Moran
4 Gender and the Environment: A Feminist Political Ecology Perspective	27	(7)
Dianne Rocheleau, Barbara Thomas-Slayter, and Esther Wangari
5 A View from a Point: Ethnoecology as Situated Knowledge	34	(6)
Virginia D. Nazarea
6 The New Ecological Anthropology	40	(13)
Conrad P. Kottak
7 Normative Behavior	53	(20)
I.G. Simmons
SECTION 2: Population	73	(64)
8 Some Perspectives and Implications	75	(5)
Ester Boserup
9 Beyond Malthus: Sixteen Dimensions of the Population Problem	80	(7)
Lester Brown, Gary Gardner, and Brian Halweil
10 Reproductive Mishaps and Western Contraception: An African Challenge to Fertility Theory	87	(26)
Caroline Bledsoe, Fatoumatta Banja, and Allan G. Hill
11 Gender, Population, Environment	113	(5)
Sally Ethelston
12 The Environment as Geopolitical Threat: Reading Robert Kaplan's "Coming Anarchy"	118	(19)
Simon Dalby
SECTION 3: Large-Scale Economic Development	137	(66)
13 Energy and Tools	139	(6)
Leslie White
14 The Growth of World Urbanism	145	(18)
Charles Redman
15 The Anti-Politics Machine: "Development" and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho	163	(10)
James Ferguson with Larry Lohmann
16 Income Levels and the Environment	173	(10)
Wilfred Beckerman
17 Staying Alive: Women, Ecology, and Development	183	(8)
Vandana Shiva
18 Measuring up to Sustainability	191	(12)
Alan Fricker
SECTION 4: Conserving Biodiversity	203	(52)
19 The Third Stage of Ecological Anthropology: Processual Approaches	205	(10)
Ben Orlove
20 Conflicts over Development and Environmental Values: The International Ivory Trade in Zimbabwe's Historical Context	215	(11)
Kevin A. Hill
21 The Power of Environmental Knowledge: Ethnoecology and Environmental Conflicts in Mexican Conservation	226	(11)
Nora Haenn
22 Holding Ground	237	(6)
Kent Redford, Katrina Brandon, and Steven Sanderson
23 Does Biodiversity Exist?	243	(3)
Arturo Escobar
24 Road Kill in Cameroon	246	(9)
Michael McRae
SECTION 5: Managing The Environment	255	(94)
25 On Environmentality: Geo-Power and Eco-Knowledge in the Discourses of Contemporary Environmentalism	257	(13)
Timothy W. Luke
26 Radical Ecology and Conservation Science: An Australian Perspective	270	(14)
Libby Robin
27 The Political Ecology of Deforestation in Honduras	284	(18)
Susan C. Stonich and Billie R. DeWalt
28 Peasants and Global Environmentalism	302	(23)
Akhil Gupta
29 New World, New Deal: A Democratic Approach to Globalization	325	(11)
W. Bowman Cutter, Joan Spero, and Laura D'Andrea Tyson
30 Individualism, Holism, and Environmental Ethics	336	(13)
Kristin Shrader-Frechette
SECTION 6: Indigenous Groups	349	(52)
31 Cultural Theory and Environmentalism	351	(4)
Kay Milton
32 The Benefits of the Commons	355	(6)
F. Berkes, D. Feeny, B.J. McCoy, and J.M. Acheson
33 Indigenous Initiatives and Petroleum Politics in the Ecuadorian Amazon	361	(6)
Suzana Sawyer
34 Endangered Forest, Endangered People: Environmentalist Representations of Indigenous Knowledge	367	(19)
J. Peter Brosius
35 Tribal Whaling Poses New Threat	386	(4)
Will Anderson
36 On the Importance of Being Tribal: Tribal Wisdom	390	(11)
David Maybury-Lewis
SECTION 7: Consumption and Globalization	401	(68)
37 How Do We Know We Have Global Environmental Problems? Science and the Globalization of Environmental Discourse	407	(11)
Peter J. Taylor and Frederick H. Buttel
38 The Ecology of Global Consumer Culture	418	(12)
Richard R. Wilk
39 A World without Boundaries: The Body Shop's Trans/National Geographics	430	(13)
Caren Kaplan
40 The Invisible Giant: Cargill and Its Transnational Strategies	443	(6)
Brewster Kneen
41 Treading Lightly? Ecotourism's Impact on the Environment	449	(9)
Martha Honey
42 Voluntary Simplicity and the New Global Challenge	458	(11)
Duane Elgin
Contributors	469	(6)
Index	475