Bush Base, Forest Farm : Culture, Environment, and Development.

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Croll, Elisabeth.
Imprint:	Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2002.
Description:	1 online resource (276 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Human ecology -- Cross-cultural studies. Traditional farming -- Cross-cultural studies. Agricultural ecology -- Cross-cultural studies. Environmental policy -- Cross-cultural studies. Agricultural ecology. Environmental policy. Human ecology. Traditional farming. Cross-cultural studies.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11780667

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Varying Form of Title:	European Inter-University Development Opportunity Study Group
Other authors / contributors:	Parkin, David.
ISBN:	0415066573 9780415066570 0415066565 9780415066563 0203036123 9780203036129
Notes:	English. Print version record.
Summary:	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 understandin.

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