New Directions in Anthropology and Environment
New Directions in Anthropology and Environment

Author: Carole L. Crumley

Publisher: AltaMira Press

Published: 2002-05-09

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 058538259X

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Carole L. Crumley has brought together top scholars from across anthropology in a benchmark volume that displays the range of exciting new work on the complex relationship between humans and the environment. Continually pursuing anthropology's persistent claim that both the physical and the mental world matter, these environmental scholars proceed from the holistic assumption that the physical world and human societies are always inextricably linked. As they incorporate diverse forms of knowledge, their work reaches beyond anthropology to bridge the sciences, social sciences, and the humanities, and to forge working relationships with non-academic communities and professionals. Theoretical issues such as the cultural dimensions of context, knowledge, and power are articulated alongside practical discussions of building partnerships, research methods and ethics, and strategies for implementing policy. New Directions in Environment and Anthropology will be important for all scholars and non-academics interested in the relation between our species and its biotic and built environments. It is also designed for classroom use in and beyond anthropology, and students will be greatly assisted by suggested reading lists for their further exploration of general concepts and specific research. Learn more about the author at the University of North Carolina Anthropology Department web pages.

Environmental Anthropology
Environmental Anthropology

Author: Helen Kopnina

Publisher:

Published: 2015-10-14

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780415708678

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A new title from Routledge, this is a four-volume collection of cutting-edge and foundational research.

A Companion to the Anthropology of Environmental Health
A Companion to the Anthropology of Environmental Health

Author: Merrill Singer

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2016-04-27

Total Pages: 517

ISBN-13: 1118786920

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A Companion to the Anthropology of Environmental Health presents a collection of readings that utilize a medical anthropological approach to explore the interface of humans and the environment in the shaping of health and illness around the world. Features the latest ethnographic research from around the world related to the multiple impacts of the environment on health and of societies on their environments Includes contributions from international medical anthropologists, conservationists, environmental experts, public health professionals, health clinicians, and other social scientists Analyzes the conditions of cultural and social transformation that accompany environmental and ecological impacts in all areas of the world Offers critical perspectives on theoretical and methodological advancements in the anthropology of environmental health, along with future directions in the field

Troubles with Turtles
Troubles with Turtles

Author: Dimitris Theodossopoulos

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2003-03-01

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 0857456792

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The people of Vassilikos, farmers and tourist entrepreneurs on the Greek island of Zakynthos, are involved in a bitter environmental dispute concerning the conservation of sea turtles. Against the environmentalists' practices and ideals they set their own culture of relating to the land, cultivation, wild and domestic animals. Written from an anthropological perspective, this book puts forward the idea that a thorough study of indigenous cultures is a fundamental step to understanding conflicts over the environment. For this purpose, the book offers a detailed account of the cultural depth and richness of the human environmental relationship in Vassilikos, focusing on the engagement of its inhabitants with diverse aspects of the local environment, such as animal care, agriculture, tourism and hunting.

Anthropology of Migration and Multiculturalism
Anthropology of Migration and Multiculturalism

Author: Steven Vertovec

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-09-13

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1317989317

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The field of anthropology of migration and multiculturalism is booming. Throughout its hundred-odd year history, studies of migration and diverse or ‘plural’ societies have arguably been both marginal and central to the discipline of Anthropology. However, recent years have witnessed the rapid growth of anthropological studies concerning these topics. This has particularly been the case since the 1970s, when anthropologists developed a keen interest in the subject of ethnicity, especially in post-migration communities. Since the 1990s, migrant transnationalism has become one of the most fashionable topics. There is still much to do in research and theory surrounding this field, not least with regard to contemporary public debates around multiculturalism, immigration and ‘integration’ policy. This book presents essays pointing toward a number of possible new directions – both theoretical and methodological – for anthropological inquiry into migration and multiculturalism, including innovative ways of examining diversity discourses, urban conditions, social complexities, scales of analysis, transnational marriages, entangled politics and interwoven cultures. This book was published as a special issue of the Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Politics of Scale
Politics of Scale

Author: Tuuli Lähdesmäki

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2019-01-02

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13: 1789200172

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Critical Heritage Studies is a new and fast-growing interdisciplinary field of study seeking to explore power relations involved in the production and meaning-making of cultural heritage. Politics of Scale offers a global, multi- and interdisciplinary point of view to the scaled nature of heritage, and provides a theoretical discussion on scale as a social construct and a method in Critical Heritage Studies. The international contributors provide examples and debates from a range of diverse countries, discuss how heritage and scale interact in current processes of heritage meaning-making, and explore heritage-scale relationship as a domain of politics.

Great Expectations
Great Expectations

Author: Jonathan Skinner

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2011-10-01

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 0857452789

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The negotiation of expectations in tourism is a complex and dynamic process – one that is central to the imagination of cultural difference. Expectations not only affect the lives and experiences of tourists, but also their hosts, and play an important part in the success or failure of the overall tourism experience. It is for this reason, the authors argue, that special attention should be given to how expectations constitute and sustain tourism. The case studies presented here explore what fuels the desires to visit particular places, to what degree expectations inform the experience of the place, and the frequent disjunctions between tourist expectations and experiences. Careful attention is paid to how the imagination of the visitor inspires the imagination of the host, and vice-versa; how tourists and host communities actively imagine, re-imagine, and shape each other’s lives. This realization, has profound consequences, not solely for academic analysis, but for all those who participate in and work within the tourism industry.

Environmental Anthropology Today
Environmental Anthropology Today

Author: Helen Kopnina

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2011-08-05

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 1136658564

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This collection offers a wide ranging consideration of the field which illustrates how environmental anthropology can increase our understanding and help find solutions to environmental problems.

The Anthropology of Sustainability
The Anthropology of Sustainability

Author: Marc Brightman

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-08-02

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 1137566361

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book compiles research from leading experts in the social, behavioral, and cultural dimensions of sustainability, as well as local and global understandings of the concept, and on lived practices around the world. It contains studies focusing on ways of living, acting, and thinking which claim to favor the local and global ecological systems of which we are a part, and on which we depend for survival. The concept of sustainability as a product of concern about global environmental degradation, rising social inequalities, and dispossession is presented as a key concept. The contributors explore the opportunities to engage with questions of sustainability and to redefine the concept of sustainability in anthropological terms.

A Venetian Island
A Venetian Island

Author: Lidia Sciama

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2003-06-01

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1782386149

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Since the extensive floods of 1966, inhabitants of Venice's laguna areas have come to share in, and reflect upon, concerns over pressing environmental problems. Evidence of damage caused by industrial pollution has contributed to the need to recover a common culture and establish a sense of continuity with "truly Venetian traditions." Based on ethnographic and archival data, this in-depth study of the Venetian island of Burano shows how its inhabitants develop their sense of a distinct identity on the basis of their notions of gender, honor and kinship relations, their common memories, their knowledge and love of their environment and their special skills in fishing and lace making.