Overview

This book tells the story of a farming community's resistance to ecological conservation. The ensuing dispute is described from an anthropological perspective, in terms of the conflicting social priorities and cultural values. Its lesson is that decisions about the environment always have cultural consequences, making us question the benefits of environmentalism.

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9781571815965

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. . .the book has a number of things to recommend it, particularly for undergraduate teaching, as its scale and readability would be an ethnographic asset for courses on, for example, anthropology and the environment. Its material also provides a number of teachable opportunities, both critically and historically. . Human Ecology Though predominantly informative about Greek rural life, the book constitutes an illustrative and informative account about human relationships with the natural world more generally. .H-Environment

<i>.. .the book has a number of things to recommend it, particularly for undergraduate teaching, as its scale and readability would be an ethnographic asset for courses on, for example, anthropology and the environment. Its material also provides a number of teachable opportunities, both critically and historically. </i><b> - Human Ecology</b></p> <i> Though predominantly informative about Greek rural life, the book constitutes an illustrative and informative account about human relationships with the natural world more generally. </i> <b> - H-Environment</b></p>

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Dimitris Theodossopoulos is a Reader at the University of Kent. In the early nineties he carried out fieldwork on environmental politics and the indigenous perceptions of the environment in rural Greece. He is currently teaching anthropology and writing on a variety of themes, ranging from the human-environmental relationship to the ethnography of conflict and nationalism in the Balkans. His most recent field of interest focuses on Greek attitudes towards the Turks and the Greco-Turkish politics of friendship.

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