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

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
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.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Part I. Bush Base: Forest Farm
  • 1. Anthropology, the Environment and Development
  • 2. Cultural Understandings of the Environment
  • Part II. Ecocosmologies
  • 3. Culture and the Perception of the Environment
  • References
  • 4. The Dogon and Their Trees
  • References
  • 5. Women's Crops in Women's Spaces
  • 6. Ideas and Usage
  • 7. Ritual Topography and Ecological Use
  • Part III. Changing to Order
  • 8. People's Participation in Environmental Projects
  • References
  • 9. Intolerable Environments
  • 10. Cows Eat Grass Don't They?
  • 11. From Sago to Rice
  • 12. 'Nature', 'Culture' and Disasters
  • References
  • 13. 'Arctic Ethno-Ecology'
  • 14. Landscape and Self-Determination among the Eveny
  • Name Index
  • Subject Index

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