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Title The environment in anthropology : a reader in ecology, culture, and sustainable living / edited by Nora Haenn, Richard R. Wilk, and Allison Harnish.

Publication Info. New York : New York University Press, [2016]
©2016

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Edition Second edition.
Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; General Introduction; SECTION 1. SO, WHAT IS ENVIRONMENTAL ANTHROPOLOGY?; 1. The Concept and Method of Cultural Ecology; 2. Smallholders, Householders; 3. False Forest History, Complicit Social Analysis: Rethinking Some West African Environmental Narratives; 4. Gender and Environment: A Feminist Political Ecology Perspective; 5. A View from a Point: Ethnoecology as Situated Knowledge; 6. Ethics Primer for University Students Intending to Become Natural Resources Managers and Administrators; SECTION 2. WHAT DOES POPULATION HAVE TO DO WITH IT?
7. Ester Boserup's Theory of Agrarian Change: A Critical Review8. The Benefits of the Commons; 9. 7 Billion and Counting; 10. Rural Household Demographics, Livelihoods, and the Environment; 11. Carrying Capacity's New Guise: Folk Models for Public Debate and Longitudinal Study of Environmental Change; 12. The Environment as Geopolitical Threat: Reading Robert Kaplan's "Coming Anarchy"; SECTION 3. WHAT ARE URBAN, RURAL, AND SUBURBAN ENVIRONMENTS?; 13. The Growth of World Urbanism; 14. Economic Growth and the Environment; 15. Bhopal: Vulnerability, Routinization, and the Chronic Disaster.
16. The Lawn-Chemical Economy and Its Discontents17. Addictive Economies and Coal Dependency: Methods of Extraction and Socioeconomic Outcomes in West Virginia, 1997-2009; 18. The Anti-Politics Machine: "Development" and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho; SECTION 4. HOW DOES GLOBALIZATION AFFECT ENVIRONMENT AND CULTURE?; 19. How Do We Know We Have Global Environmental Problems? Science and the Globalization of Environmental Discourse; 20. Bottled Water: The Pure Commodity in the Age of Branding; 21. Indigenous Initiatives and Petroleum Politics in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
22. Land Tenure and REDD+: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly23. Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection; SECTION 5. HOW DO IDENTITIES SHAPE ECOLOGICAL EXPERIENCES?; 24. Cultural Theory and Environmentalism; 25. Endangered Forests, Endangered People: Environmentalist Representations of Indigenous Knowledge; 26. The Nature of Gender: Gender, Work, and Environment; 27. "But I Know It's True": Environmental Risk Assessment, Justice, and Anthropology; 28. Bringing the Moral Economy Back in ... to the Study of 21st-Century Transnational Peasant Movements.
29. How to Queer Ecology: One Goose at a TimeSECTION 6. CAN BIODIVERSITY BE CONSERVED?; 30. Neoliberal Conservation: A Brief Introduction; 31. The Power of Environmental Knowledge: Ethnoecology and Environmental Conflicts in Mexican Conservation; 32. Radical Ecology and Conservation Science: An Australian Perspective; 33. Stolen Apes: The Illicit Trade in Chimpanzees, Gorillas, Bonobos, and Orangutans; 34. Difference and Conflict in the Struggle over Natural Resources: A Political Ecology Framework; SECTION 7. IS GREEN CONSUMERISM THE ANSWER?
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Subject Human ecology.
Human ecology.
Applied anthropology.
Applied anthropology.
Sustainable living.
Sustainable living.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Haenn, Nora, 1967- editor.
Wilk, Richard R., editor.
Harnish, Allison, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Environment in anthropology. Second edition. New York : New York University Press, [2016] 9781479897827 (DLC) 2015043579 (OCoLC)935053071
ISBN 9781479862689 (electronic book)
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