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Author: Carole L. Crumley ,
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing ,
Luisa Maffi ,
Willett Kempton
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Imprint: AltaMira Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.30cm
, Height: 2.10cm
, Length: 22.60cm
Weight: 0.513kg
ISBN: 9780742502659
ISBN 10: 0742502651
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 27 March 2001
Audience:
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
As review articles, all the essays are informative and potentially useful, pointing the way towards work that could be followed up in more detail. In this sense, they serve their purpose as introductions to environmental anthropology and its various subfields. In particular, Tsing's analysis of the relations among environmental history, science studies, political ecology, and cultural anthropology in the creation of particular strands of interdisciplinary scholarship is insightful, especially when paired with Dove's demonstration of and reflections on interdisciplinary borrowing in ecological anthropology.... [This book] highlights some important developments in the field, and it forcefully advocates anthropology's engagement in environmental discourse. Some chapters, those of Sponsel, Dove, and Ingerson, in particular, will become central to my course reading lists, while some others might be recommended as useful illustrations.--Milton, Kay Current Anthropology
As review articles, all the essays are informative and potentially useful, pointing the way towards work that could be followed up in more detail. In this sense, they serve their purpose as introductions to environmental anthropology and its various subfields. In particular, Tsing's analysis of the relations among environmental history, science studies, political ecology, and cultural anthropology in the creation of particular strands of interdisciplinary scholarship is insightful, especially when paired with Dove's demonstration of and reflections on interdisciplinary borrowing in ecological anthropology.... [This book] highlights some important developments in the field, and it forcefully advocates anthropology's engagement in environmental discourse. Some chapters, those of Sponsel, Dove, and Ingerson, in particular, will become central to my course reading lists, while some others might be recommended as useful illustrations. -- Kay Milton, (Queen's University, Belfast) * Current Anthropology * The papers in this volume offer a rich and varied menu sure to delight young scholars seeking to engage environmental issues through an anthropological prism. From approaches to the construction of nature to the emergence of a spiritual ecology, engagement with environmentalism, historical ecology, and political ecology readers will find much food for thought in these pages. -- Emilio Moran, (Director, Anthropological Center for Training and Research on Global Environmental Change, Indiana University)
Author Information
Carole 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. She is Secretary of the American Anthropological Association, and past president and founding member of the AAA Anthropology and Environment Section.
