In "Environmentalism" the contributors demonstrate that anthropology has a distinctive contribution to make to current debates on "green issues". Drawing on studies in sociology and law, as well as anthropology, the contributors challenge the view that environmental issues are the province of "natural" science alone and explore the interdisciplinary nature of the environmental debate. The text brings together a wide range of studies, from environmental ideology and imagery, and environmental law and policy, through local environmental activism, to ethnographic analyses of human/environment relations in indigenous societies. The contributors raise key issues such as the effects of state interests and bureaucracies on environmental activism, the cultural construction of "hard" principles of law and policy, and the responses of indigenous peoples to industrial exploitation of their environments. They also explore theoretical issues in anthropology, including the globalization of culture, the analytical value of dualism and the relationship between anthropology and advocacy.
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`Here anthropologists, long marginal to this area of work, add their distinctive voices to the debates on environmentalism and the quest for a more viable future. ... These conversations on conservation force us to reflect on the rhetoric on the international environmental movement and ponder the plight of those denied a voice in the environmental culture wars of the late twentieth century. They are also just plain fun to read. Index, chapter-end references.' - Population & Development Review
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The rise of 'the environment' as a social and cultural phenomenon was a striking feature of the 1970s and 1980s around the world. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Jersey, Merrell Dow, New York, Cambridge University Press, Protection Association, Sierra Leone, First Nations, Pollution Probe, North Sea, Friends of the Earth, Green Plan, Ontario Environmental Network, Royal Society, Lega Ambiente, Papua New Guinea, Polity Press, United States, Australian Aborigines, Church Farm, Democrazia Proletaria, Department of the Environment, Environment Canada, Oxford University Press, The Guardian, Union of Ontario Indians New!
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New Jersey, Merrell Dow, New York, Cambridge University Press, Protection Association, Sierra Leone, First Nations, Pollution Probe, North Sea, Friends of the Earth, Green Plan, Ontario Environmental Network, Royal Society, Lega Ambiente, Papua New Guinea, Polity Press, United States, Australian Aborigines, Church Farm, Democrazia Proletaria, Department of the Environment, Environment Canada, Oxford University Press, The Guardian, Union of Ontario Indians New!
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- Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff on page 84, page 112, and page 123
- The Appropriation of Nature: Essays on Human Ecology and Social Relations by Tim Ingold in Front Matter, page 123, and page 158
- The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley on page 221, and page 232
- Green Political Thought by Andrew Dobson in Front Matter, and page 71
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- Environmentalism and Cultural Theory: Exploring the Role of Anthropology in Environmental Discourse (Environment and Society) by Kay Milton on 10 pages
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- The Anthropology of Power (ASA Monographs) by Angela Cheater on 4 pages
- Natural Enemies: People-Wildlife Conflicts in Anthropological Perspective (European Association of Social Anthropologists) by John Knight in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Front Matter (3)
- After Writing Culture: Epistemology and Praxis in Contemporary Anthropology (ASA Monographs) by Andrew Dawson in Front Matter, page 15, and page 143
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