Reflecting new thinking about conservation in Southeast Asia, Beyond the Sacred Forest is the product of a unique, decade-long, interdisciplinary collaboration involving research in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines. Scholars from these countries and the United States rethink the translation of environmental concepts between East and West, particularly ideas of nature and culture; the meaning of conservation; and the ways that conservation policy is applied and transformed in the everyday landscapes of Southeast Asia. The contributors focus more on folk,...
Reflecting new thinking about conservation in Southeast Asia, Beyond the Sacred Forest is the product of a unique, decade-long, interdisciplina...
Environmental Anthropology: A Reader is a collection of historically significant readings, dating from early in the twentieth century up to the present, on the cross-cultural study of relations between people and their environment.
Provides the historical perspective that is typically missing from recent work in environmental anthropology
Includes an extensive intellectual history and commentary by the volume's editors
Offers a unique perspective on current interest in cross-cultural environmental relations
Divided into five thematic sections: (1)...
Environmental Anthropology: A Reader is a collection of historically significant readings, dating from early in the twentieth century up to the...