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

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Author / Creator:Croll, Elisabeth.
Imprint:Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2002.
Description:1 online resource (276 pages)
Language:English
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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.
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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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505 8 |a Ritual topography and ecological use: The Gabbra of the Kenyan/Ethiopian borderlands Gnther SchleePeople's participation in environmental projects Carol A. Drijver; Intolerable environments: Towards a cultural reading of agrarian practice and policy in Rwanda Johan Pottier and August in Nkundabashaka; Cows eat grass don't they? Evaluating conflict over pastoral management in Zimmbabwe Michael Drinkwater; From sago to rice: Changes in cultivation in Siberut, Indonesia Gerard Persoon; 'Nature', 'culture' and disasters: Floods and gender in Bangladesh Rosalind Shaw. 
505 8 |a 'Arctic ethno-ecology': Environmentalist debates in the Soviet North Igor KrupnikLandscape and self-determination among the Eveny: The political environment of Siberian reindeer herders today Piers Vitebsky; Name index; Subject index. 
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