| Ethnographies of Conservation: Environmentalism and the Distribution of Privilege Contributor(s): Anderson, David G. (Editor), Berglund, Eeva (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1571816968 ISBN-13: 9781571816962 Publisher: Berghahn Books OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2004 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy - Science | Environmental Science (see Also Chemistry - Environmental) |
| Dewey: 178 |
| Physical Information: 0.51" H x 6" W x 9" (0.72 lbs) 242 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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): Anderson, David G.: - David G. Anderson is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen. 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. |