Routledge Handbook of Environmental Anthropology

ISBN-13: 9780367027032 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 472 str.

Helen Kopnina; Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet

Opis

This Handbook provides a comprehensive survey of contemporary topics in environmental anthropology and thorough discussions on the current state and prospective future of the field in seven key sections. As the contributions to this Handbook demonstrate, the subfield of environmental anthropology is responding to cultural adaptations and responses to environmental changes in multiple and complex ways. As a discipline concerned primarily with human-environment interaction, environmental anthropologists recognize that we are now working within a pressure cooker of rapid environmental damage that is forcing behavioural and often cultural changes around the world. As we see in the breadth of topics presented in this volume, these environmental challenges have inspired renewed foci on traditional topics such as food procurement, ethnobiology, and spiritual ecology; and a broad new range of subjects, such as resilience, nonhuman rights, architectural anthropology, industrialism, and education.

Recenzje

"It is an informative and enlightening read for accomplished academics and new scholars in anthropology, ecology and conservation or similar related disciplines. Although geared primarily toward social anthropologists this book provides a plentiful source of up-to-date references and case studies for anyone with a general interest in environmental anthropology or wishing to delve deeper into associated subject areas, coming from a biological conservation or social science background. It offers a uniquely holistic overview of anthropology, taking as its point of departure pressing environmental challenges, whilst effectively conveying the message that anthropologists should look beyond their subject and adopt an interdisciplinary approach when exploring social and environmental issues."

Hannah E.Parathian, Centre for Research in Anthropology, Lisbon.

Spis treści

Part 1: The Development of Environmental Anthropology  1. Introduction  2. History and Scope of Environmental Anthropology  3. Ethnobiology and the New Environmental Anthropology  4. Anthropology and the Environment: Beginnings  5. Ethnoscientific implications of classification as a socio-cultural process  Part 2: Investigations in sub-fields of environmental anthropology  6. Enviromateriality: Exploring the Links between Political Ecology and Material Culture Studies  7. Historical Ecology: Agency in Human-Environment Interaction  8. Architectural Anthropology: Developing methodological framework for Indigenous wellbeing  9. Beyond "nature": Towards more engaged and care-full ways of relating to the environment  Part 3: Ecological Knowledge, Belief and Sustainability  10. An Anthropology of Nature – or an Industrialist Anthropology?  11. Spiritual Ecology, Sacred Places, and Biodiversity Conservation  12. The Bible, Religion, and the Environment  13. What’s ontology got to do with it? On the knowledge of nature and the nature of knowledge in environmental anthropology  14. Unsustainability in action: An ethnographic examination  15. Anthropological Approaches to Energy  Part 4: Climate Change, Resilience and Vulnerability  16. Disasters and Their Impact: A Fundamental Feature of Environment   17. The Concepts of Adaptation, Vulnerability and Resilience in the Anthropology of Climate Change  18. Climate, Environment and Society in Northwest Greenland  19. Taking Responsibility for Climate Change: On Human Adaptation, Sustainable Consumption and Environmental Governance  20. Climate change adaptation and development planning: from resilience to transformation?  Part 5: Justice, ethics, and governance 21. Justice for All: inconvenient truths and reconciliation in human-non-human relations  22. Environmental Ethics and Environmental Anthropology  23. Battle of the Ecologies–Deep vs. Political: An Investigation of Anthropocentrism in the Social Sciences   24. ‘Good governance’, corruption, and forest protection: critical insights from environmental anthropology  25. Cultural ecotourism as an indigenous modernity: Namibian Bushmen and two contradictions of capitalism  Part 6: Health, Population, and Environment  26. Local and organic food movements  27. Anthropocentrism and the making of Environmental Health  28. Multi-Species Entanglements, Anthropology and Environmental Health Justice  29. Challenging the Conventional Wisdom: Breast Cancer and Environmental Health  30. Excessive Human Numbers in a World of Finite Limits: Confronting the Threshold of Collapse  Part 7: Environment and Education  31. Children’s language about the environment  32. "You have to do it": Creating Agency for Environmental Sustainability through Experiential Education  33. Cognition and cultural modeling  34. Perceiving Nature’s Personhood: Anthropological Enhancements to Environmental Education  35. Schooling the World: Land-based pedagogies and the culture of schooling