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Environmental anthropology: A historical reader. Edited by M. Dove and C. Carpenter. ISBN: 9781405111379 (ISBN-10: 1405111372) cloth, ISBN: 9781405111256 (ISBN-10: 14051112592007) paper, 2007, XXI + 480 pp., 41 illustrations; price UK £ 21.99, US $ 49.95 (cloth), UK £ 60.00 US $ 94.95 (paper).
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Environmental Anthropology: A Reader is a collection of historically significant readings, dating from early in the twentieth century up to the present, on the crosscultural 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) the nature/culture divide; (2) relationship between environment and social organization; (3) methodological debates and innovations; (4) politics and practice; and (5) epistemological issues of environmental anthropology;
* Organized into a series of paired...