ABSTRACT
Located in a wide spectrum of current research and practice, from analyses of green ideology and imagery, enviromental law and policy, and local enviromental activism in the West to ethnographic studies of relationships between humans and their enviroments in hunter/gatherer societies, Enviromentalism: The View from Anthropology offers an original perspective on what is probably the best-known issue of the late twentieth century.
It will be particularly useful to all social scientists interested in environmentalism and human ecology, to environmental policy-makers and to undergraduates, lecturers and researchers in social anthropology, development studies and sociology.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |13 pages
Standing in for nature
The practicalities of environmental organizations' use of science
chapter |18 pages
Rhetoric, practice and incentive in the face of the changing times
A case study in Nuaulu attitudes to conservation and deforestation
chapter |15 pages
Natural symbols and natural history
Chimpanzees, elephants and experiments in Mende thought
chapter |14 pages
Political decision-making
Environmentalism, ethics and popular participation in Italy
chapter |15 pages
Environmental protest, bureaucratic closure
The politics of discourse in rural Ireland
chapter |14 pages
The resurgence of romanticism
Contemporary neopaganism, feminist spirituality and the divinity of nature
