ABSTRACT
Taking a unique anthropological apprach, Bush Base: Forest Farm explores the management of resources in third would development programmes. The contributors, all distinguished anthropologists with practical experience of development projects, focus on the role of human cultural imagination in the use of environmental resources. They challenge the traditional sharp distinction between human settlement and natual environment (farm or camp, forest or bush), and argue that development programmes should place at their centre an appreciation of people's cosmologies and cultural understandings.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|36 pages
Bush base: forest farm
part II|92 pages
Ecocosmologies
chapter 7|19 pages
Ritual topography and ecological use
part III|118 pages
Changing to order