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Roads Diverging In Yellow Woods: New Paths For Ecological And Environmental Anthropology, Sarah Hitchner
Roads Diverging In Yellow Woods: New Paths For Ecological And Environmental Anthropology, Sarah Hitchner
Ecological and Environmental Anthropology (University of Georgia)
Anthropology is at a crossroads; perhaps it always has been. Because it is such a broad discipline, there has always been debate among anthropologists over its role inside and outside of academia. There are often tensions between the paradigms of theory and practice, modernism and postmodernism, constructionism and deconstructionism, scaling up and scaling down, and many other seeming dichotomies that really contain many shades of gray. Anthropology has been called “the most humanistic of the sciences, and the most scientific of the humanities.” We anthropologists should take this phrase as a compliment, and each strive to find our own niche …
Review Of Ethnobotany And Conservation Of Biocultural Diversity (Advances In Economic Botany, V. 15) By Thomas J.S. Carlson And Luisa Maffi, Jen Shaffer
Ecological and Environmental Anthropology (University of Georgia)
A growing recognition of humans as intrinsic parts of ecosystems implies that consideration of human activities and needs is as essential to successful conservation planning, as consideration of other species. Carlson and Maffi organize this volume of papers, given at the Sixteenth International Botanical Congress in 1999, into three sections. Part one focuses on indigenous knowledge and the creation/conservation of biodiversity in the Amazon Basin. Part two examines knowledge and sustainable use of plant resources in the Amazon Basin, sub-Saharan Africa, and Northern Vietnam. The book finishes with a section concerning ethical issues surrounding ethnobiological research and its dissemination – …
Review Of The Knowledge Of Healing By Franz Reichle, Tammy Watkins
Review Of The Knowledge Of Healing By Franz Reichle, Tammy Watkins
Ecological and Environmental Anthropology (University of Georgia)
“The Knowledge of Healing” is the name of ancient documents passed down to Tibetan medical practitioners and it is also the name of a film documenting this practice and its influences around the globe. In the 17th century botanical knowledge along with knowledge and theories regarding anatomy, physiology and illness were collected and transcribed into documents that serve as a reference for Tibetan medical practitioners in the film. It is remarkable that eighteen of the illnesses covered in the documents are diseases of the future and due to ‘the environments of the future’.
Ecology & Anthropology: A Field Without Future?, Gerald Schmidt
Ecology & Anthropology: A Field Without Future?, Gerald Schmidt
Ecological and Environmental Anthropology (University of Georgia)
Many disciplines take part in the discourse on sustainability. Sustainability science tends to focus on the side of nature and to misunderstand the human condition; social sciences tend to focus on their respective specialties and on “nature” as concept, but rarely take ecological reality into account. Environmental and ecological anthropology as disciplines that address both sides are in a peculiar position. They move beyond the dualism of nature-culture to a holistic view on ecological and cultural realities in their intrinsic connectedness. Their input will become more important as sustainability is considered in abstracted discussion (e.g. academic and activist discourse), but …
Time In Service To Historical Ecology, Ted L. Gragson
Time In Service To Historical Ecology, Ted L. Gragson
Ecological and Environmental Anthropology (University of Georgia)
Historical Ecology is one of the ascendant views in ecological and environmental anthropology. It originates in the intellectual transformation of history and ecology during the last 50 years, and seeped into anthropology in the last 10 to 15 years. Historical Ecology is increasingly recognized as one of the key approaches in the discipline helping to advance our understanding of what it means to be human.
There are numerous definitions of historical ecology, but the anthropological challenge is to place human decision-making, and the consciousness that drives it, at the center of our analyses of the human-environmental relationship (Crumley 1994, Whitehead …
Letter From The Editors, The Editors
Letter From The Editors, The Editors
Ecological and Environmental Anthropology (University of Georgia)
We of the new journal Ecological and Environmental Anthropology thank you for visiting us and hope to engage you in the discussions and debates we aim to spark. We would like the journal to serve as a nexus for the free flow of ideas of scholars and practitioners in a wide range of fields, since many disciplines are both contained within, and influenced by, ecological and environmental anthropology.
Interest in and compassion for people lie at the heart of anthropology, and we would like to dedicate our first issue to the people of Asia and Africa who became victims of …
Review Of The Political Ecology Of Tropical Forests In Southeast Asia: Historical Perspectives, Sarah Hitchner
Review Of The Political Ecology Of Tropical Forests In Southeast Asia: Historical Perspectives, Sarah Hitchner
Ecological and Environmental Anthropology (University of Georgia)
This book contains ten articles that explore the complicated relationships between and among producers and consumers of tropical forest products in Southeast Asia. The authors focus on understanding current political, economic, ecological, and social situations in their proper historical contexts. These papers cover the many types of forests that exist in Southeast Asia, as well as the many types of forest use regimes. Using political ecology as a framework, they find commonalities in the political processes behind forest use and abuse. This book tackles difficult issues, such as the power relations among the various actors involved in forest management; the …
Ecology & Anthropology: A Field Without Future?, Gerald Schmidt
Ecology & Anthropology: A Field Without Future?, Gerald Schmidt
Ecological and Environmental Anthropology (University of Georgia)
Many disciplines take part in the discourse on sustainability. Sustainability science tends to focus on the side of nature and to misunderstand the human condition; social sciences tend to focus on their respective specialties and on “nature” as concept, but rarely take ecological reality into account. Environmental and ecological anthropology as disciplines that address both sides are in a peculiar position. They move beyond the dualism of nature-culture to a holistic view on ecological and cultural realities in their intrinsic connectedness. Their input will become more important as sustainability is considered in abstracted discussion (e.g. academic and activist discourse), but …