New Directions in Anthropology and Environment Intersections

by Crumley, Carole L.; Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt; Maffi, Luisa; Kempton, Willett; Fowler and Donald L. Hardesty, Don D.; Dove, Michael R.; Leatherman, Thomas L.; Johnston, Barbara Rose; Brosius, J Peter; Sponsel, Leslie; Winthrop, Kathryn R.; Ingerson, Alice E.

• ISBN13: 9780742502659
• ISBN10: 0742502651
• Edition: Illus.
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-03-27
• Publisher: AltaMira Press

Summary

Crumley has brought together top scholars from across anthropology in a benchmark volume that displays the range of exciting new work on the complex relationship between humans and the environment. Designed for classroom use in and beyond anthropology, this book will be important for all scholars and non-academics interested in the relation between our species and its biotic and built environments.

Author Biography

J. Peter Brosius is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Georgia and president of the Anthropology and Environment Section of the American Anthropological Association Carole L. Crumley is professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a member of the executive board of the Carolina Environmental Program Michael R. Dove is professor of social ecology and anthropology and chair of the Council for Southeast Asian Studies at Yale University Don D. Fowler is the Mamie Kleberg Professor of Anthropology and Historic Preservation at the University of Nevada, Reno and a past president of the Society for American Archaeology Donald L. Hardesty is professor of anthropology at the University of Nevada, Reno Alice E. Ingerson is associate director and senior fellow at the Institute for Cultural Landscape Studies of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University Barbara Rose Johnston is senior research fellow at the Center for Political Ecology Willett Kempton is associate professor in the College of Marine Studies, University of Delaware Thomas L. Leatherman is professor of anthropology at the University of South Carolina, Columbia Luisa E. Maffi holds a B.A. in linguistics (University of Rome) and a Ph.D. in anthropology (University of California at Berkeley) Bonnie J. McCay is professor of anthropology and ecology in the Department of Human Ecology, Cook College, Rutgers, New Brunswick, N.J. Eric C. Poncelet, is a visiting scholar in the Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina Leslie E. Sponsel is a professor and director of the Ecological Anthropology Program at the University of Hawaii R. Brooke Thomas is professor of anthropology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing is professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz Kathryn R. Winthrop is currently the Bureau of Land Management liaison to the Army Environmental Center

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
Carole L. Crumley
PART ONE: Defining Environment and Interpreting Nature
Nature in the Making	3	(21)
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Linking Language and Environment: A Coevolutionary Perspective	24	(25)
Luisa E. Maffi
Cognitive Anthropology and the Environment	49	(23)
Willett Kempton
Archaeology and Environmental Changes	72	(18)
Donald L. Hardesty
Don D. Fowler
Interdisciplinary Borrowing in Environmental Anthropology and the Critique of Modern Science	90	(23)
Michael R. Dove
PART TWO: Beliefs, Values, and Environmental Justice
Political Ecology and Constructions of Environment in Biological Anthropology	113	(19)
Thomas L. Leatherman
R. Brooke Thomas
Anthropology and Environmental Justice: Analysts, Advocates, Mediators, and Troublemakers	132	(18)
Barbara Rose Johnston
The Politics of Ethnographic Presence: Sites and Topologies in the Study of Transnational Movements	150	(27)
J. Peter Brosius
Do Anthropologists Need Religion, and Vice Versa? Adventures and Dangers in Spiritual Ecology	177	(26)
Leslie E. Sponsel
PART THREE: Application and Engagement
Historical Ecology: Landscapes of Change in the Pacific Northwest	203	(20)
Kathryn R. Winthrop
Getting the Dirt Out: The Culture and Political Economy of Urban Land in the United States	223	(31)
Alice E. Ingerson
Environmental Anthropology at Sea	254	(19)
Bonnie J. McCay
The Discourse of Environmental Partnerships	273	(20)
Eric C. Poncelet
Index	293	(12)
About the Contributors	305