- How can anthropology improve our understanding of the interrelationship between nature and culture?
- What can anthropology contribute to practical debates which depend on particular definitions of nature, such as that concerning sustainable development?
Humankind has evolved over several million years by living in and utilizing 'nature' and by assimilating it into 'culture'. Indeed, the technological and cultural advancement of the species has been widely acknowledged to rest upon human domination and control of nature. Yet, by the 1960s, the idea of culture in confrontation...
- How can anthropology improve our understanding of the interrelationship between nature and culture?
Social conflict is routinely attributed to ethnic differentiation because divinding lines between rival groups often follow ethnic contours; and cultural symbolism has often proved a potent ideological weapon. The purpose of this book is to examine the nature of the bond linking ethnicity to conflict in a variety of circumstances. The ten case studies from the Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda and Kenya are based on primary research by anthropologists and historians who have long experience of the region. North America: Ohio U Press; Uganda: Fountain Publishers; Kenya: EAEP
Social conflict is routinely attributed to ethnic differentiation because divinding lines between rival groups often follow ethnic contours; and cultu...
