Culture and the Changing Environment: Uncertainty,
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Casimir, Michael J., PUBLISHER: Berghahn Books, "This remarkable anthology of 13 essays is a cross-cultural study on ecological anthropology, which examong>inong>es the cultural construction of nature, human evaluation of environmental risks, and human action to mitigate such risks. The anthology persuasively critiques the privilegong>inong>g of Western rationality over culture-specific ong>perspectivesong> of environmental change... It] stands alone for the geographical sweep of its contributions - from Europe, Asia, and Africa - and its disciplong>inong>ary eclecticism, which draws deeply on anthropology, geography, psychology, ethnography, ethnology, and sociology... Essential." Choice Today human ecology has split ong>inong>to many different sub-disciplong>inong>es such as historical ecology, political ecology or the New Ecological Anthropology. The latter ong>inong> particular has criticised the predomong>inong>ance of the Western view on different ecosystems, arguong>inong>g that culture-specific world views and human-environment ong>inong>teractions have been largely neglected. However, these different ong>perspectivesong> only tackle specific facets of a local and global hyper-complex reality. ong>Inong> brong>inong>gong>inong>g together a variety of views and theoretical approaches, these especially commissioned essays prove that an ong>inong>terdisciplong>inong>ary collaboration and understandong>inong>g of the extreme complexity of the human-environment ong>inong>terface(s) is possible. Michael J. Casimir is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Cologne. He has conducted prolonged fieldwork on the ecology, economy, environmental management and nutritional and socialisation patterns among pastoral nomads ong>inong> west Afghanistan and Kashmir. Together with Aparna Rao he was chairperson of the Commission on Nomadic Peoples of the ong>Inong>ternational Union of Ethnological and Anthropological Sciences (), and was until one of the editors of Nomadic Peoples (Berghahn), the official journal of the Commission. His major publications ong>inong>clude Flocks and Food. A Biocultural Approach to the Study of Pastoral Foodways (); Mobility and Territoriality (ed. ); Nomadism ong>inong> South Asia (ed. ). Acquista Ora