Elisabeth Croll / David Parkin (eds.)

Bush Base, Forest Farm

Culture, Environment, and Development
Herausgeber: Croll, Elisabeth; Parkin, David

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The relationships between humans and their natural surroundings is paradoxical. We impose knowldge and action on the world around us, yet at the same time, we work within a web of beliefs and myths which suggest that we and our environments are inseperably fused, with neither one more powerful than the other. How to reconcile these two facts is central also to development programmes throughout the world, where environmental views often conflict with the concern for economic growth and modernisation.L Combining practical experience with theoretical sophisticatio, Bush Base, Forest Farm presents a thorough understanding of different peoples' cosmologies and cultures in relation to their environments from an original anthropological perspective. It ahould become required reading for undergraduates, lecturers and policy makers in anthropology, development studies and environmental studies.

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Taking a unique anthropological approach, the contributors explore the management of resources in Third World development programmes, focusing on the role of human cultural imagination in the use of environmental resources.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 143mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9780415066570
• ISBN-10: 0415066573
• Artikelnr.: 22076661

Autorenporträt

Elisabeth Croll and David Parkin are members of the Department of Anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures and tables
List of contributors
Preface
Part I Bush base: forest farm
Part II Ecocosmologies
Part III Changing to order
Name index
Subject index