Ethnographies Of Conservation

by Anderson, David G.; Berglund, Eeva K.

• ISBN13: 9781571816962
• ISBN10: 1571816968
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780857456748
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-08-01
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
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Summary

Anthropologists know that conservation often disempowers already under-privileged groups, and that it also fails to protect environments. Through a series of ethnographic studies, this book argues that the real problem is not the disappearance of "pristine nature" or even the land-use practices of uneducated people. Rather, what we know about culturally determined patterns of consumption, production and unequal distribution suggests that critical attention would be better turned on discourses of "primitiveness" and "pristine nature" so prevalent within conservation ideology, and on the historically formed power and exchange relationships that they help perpetuate.

Table of Contents

Maps and Figures	ix
Acknowledgements	ix
Notes on the Contributors	x
Introduction: Towards an Ethnography of Ecological Underprivilege	1	(18)
Eeva Berglund
David G. Anderson
Part I: Anthropology, Ecopolitics and Discrimination
Pitfalls of Synchronicity: A Case Study of the Caicaras in the Atlantic Rainforest of South-eastern Brazil	19	(14)
Cristina Adams
Nature as Contested Terrain: Conflicts Over Wilderness Protection and Local Livelihoods in Rio San Juan, Nicaragua	33	(18)
Anja Nygren
The Environment at the Periphery: Conflicting Discourses on the Forest in Tanimbar, Eastern Indonesia	51	(18)
Nicola Frost
Rachel Wrangham
Part II: Distributing Justice within Protected Landscapes
Protest, Conflict and Litigation: Dissent or Libel in Resistance to a Conservancy in North-west Namibia	69	(18)
Sian Sullivan
Environmentalism in the Syrian Badia: The Assumptions of Degradation, Protection and Bedouin Misuse	87	(14)
Dawn Chatty
`Ecocide and Genocide': Explorations of Environmental Justice in Lakota Sioux Country	101	(18)
Bornali Haider
Promoting Consumption in the Rainforest: Global Conservation in Papua New Guinea	119	(20)
David M. Ellis
Part III: Writing Environmentalism
`We still are Soviet People': Youth Ecological Culture in the Republic of Tatarstan and the Legacy of the Soviet Union	139	(16)
Luna Rolle
The Ecology of Markets in Central Siberia	155	(16)
David G. Anderson
Contrasting Landscapes, Conflicting Ontologies: Assessing Environmental Conservation on Palawan Island (The Philippines)	171	(18)
Dario Novellino
Ecologism as an Idiom in Amazonian Anthropology	189	(16)
Stephen Nugent
Bibliography	205	(16)
Index	221