Environmental Anthropology: A Historical Reader (Wiley Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)

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 anthropologyIncludes an extensive intellectual history and commentary by the volume’s editorsOffers a unique perspective on current interest in cross-cultural environmental relationsDivided 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 anthropologyOrganized into a series of paired papers, which ‘speak’ to each other, designed to encourage readers to make connections that they might not customarily make Read more