Sustainability, Conservation, and Creativity: Ethnographic Learning from Small-Scale Practices

ISBN-13: 9781032240282 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 64 str.

Pamela J. Stewart; Andrew J. Strathern

Opis

By examining how small communities have dealt with forces of change and have sought to maintain themselves over time, this book offers pointers and lessons for conservation practices at all levels of society.

Spis treści

1. Conceptual Orientations  2. Perceptions and Practices in Papua New Guinea: the Duna Case  3. Arguments about the Commons  4. Traditional Conservation and Cash-Cropping in Papua New Guinea  5. Mining and its Effects in Papua New Guinea  6. Energy  7. Farming, Sustainability and Kinship  8. The Ends of Sustainability

O autorze

Pamela J. Stewart (Strathern) is Co-Director of the Cromie Burn Research Unit and Senior Research Associate at the University of Pittsburgh, USA, and Honorary Associate Professor at the Australian National University

Andrew J. Strathern is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh, USA, and Honorary Professor at the Australian National University