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Ethnographies of Conservation: Environmentalism and the Distribution of Privilege
Contributor(s): Anderson, David G. (Editor), Berglund, Eeva (Editor)
ISBN: 1571814647     ISBN-13: 9781571814647
Publisher: Berghahn Books
OUR PRICE:   $128.25  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: February 2003
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BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy
- Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social
- Science | Environmental Science (see Also Chemistry - Environmental)
Dewey: 178
LCCN: 2002066724
Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6" W x 9" (1.09 lbs) 242 pages
 
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Anthropologists know that conservation often disempowers already under-privileged groups, and that it also fails to protect environments. Through a series of ethnographic studies, this book argues that the real problem is not the disappearance of pristine nature or even the land-use practices of uneducated people. Rather, what we know about culturally determined patterns of consumption, production and unequal distribution, suggests that critical attention would be better turned on discourses of primitiveness and pristine nature so prevalent within conservation ideology, and on the historically formed power and exchange relationships that they help perpetuate.


Contributor Bio(s): Berglund, Eeva: -

Eeva Berglund was Lecturer in Anthropology at Goldsmiths College from 1998 to 2002 and has written on the anthropology and history of environmental politics.

Anderson, David G.: -

David G. Anderson is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen.