Environmental Anthropology A Historical Reader

by Dove, Michael R.; Carpenter, Carol

• ISBN13: 9781405111256
• ISBN10: 1405111259
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-12-03
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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 Biography

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.

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
The Nature-Culture Dichotomy	p. 87
Questioning the nature-culture dichotomy: From Posey's indigenous knowledge to Fairhead and Leach's politics of knowledge
Indigenous Management of Tropical Forest Ecosystems: The Case of the Kayapo Indians of the Brazilian Amazon	p. 89
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
Interest in Cattle	p. 118
The Cultural Ecology of India's Sacred Cattle	p. 138
Ecology and Social Organization	p. 155
Early essays on social organization and ecology: Mauss and Steward
Seasonal Variations of the Eskimo: A Study in Social Morphology	p. 157
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
Ecologic Relationships of Ethnic Groups in Swat, North Pakistan	p. 181
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
Critical Pressures on Food Supply and their Economic Effects	p. 202
How the Enga Cope with Frost: Responses to Climatic Perturbations in the Central Highlands of New Guinea	p. 223
Methodological Challenges and Debates	p. 239
Ethnoecology and the defense of swidden agriculture: Conklin and Carneiro
An Ethnoecological Approach to Shifting Agriculture	p. 241
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
Ritual Regulation of Environmental Relations among a New Guinea People	p. 254
Why Hunters Gather: Optimal Foraging and the Ache of Eastern Paraguay	p. 265
The bounded and balanced community: Solway and Lee, and Netting
Foragers, Genuine or Spurious?: Situating the Kalahari San in History	p. 284
Links and Boundaries: Reconsidering the Alpine Village as Ecosystem	p. 309
The Politics of Natural Resources and the Environment	p. 319
Indigeneity and natural resource politics: Ellen and Li
Forest Knowledge, Forest Transformation: Political Contingency, Historical Ecology, and the Renegotiation of Nature in Central Seram	p. 321
Articulating Indigenous Identity in Indonesia: Resource Politics and the Tribal Slot	p. 339
Environmental campaigns and collaborations: Brosius and Tsing
Green Dots, Pink Hearts: Displacing Politics from the Malaysian Rain Forest	p. 363
Becoming a Tribal Elder, and Other Green Development Fantasies	p. 393
Knowing the Environment	p. 423
Social identity and perception of the landscape: Frake and Bloch
People into Places: Zafimaniry Concepts of Clarity	p. 425
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
Effects of Conscious Purpose on Human Adaptation	p. 457
Globes and Spheres: The Topology of Environmentalism	p. 462
Index of Subjects	p. 471
Index of Names	p. 478
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