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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.
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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