| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 263 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
EIDOS Series
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| Contents |
Part Part I Bush base: forest farm -- chapter 1 Anthropology, the environment and development / Elisabeth Croll -- chapter 2 Cultural understandings of the environment / Elisabeth Croll -- part Part II Ecocosmologies -- chapter 3 Culture and the perception of the environment / Tim Ingold -- chapter 4 The Dogon and their trees / Walter E.A. van Beek -- chapter 5 Women's crops in women's spaces: Gender relations in Mende rice farming -- Melissa Leach / Gender relations in Mende rice farming Melissa Leach -- chapter 6 Ideas and usage: Environment in Aouan society, Ivory Coast Jan P.M.van den Breemer / Environment in Aouan society, Ivory Coast Jan P.M. van den Breemer -- chapter 7 Ritual topography and ecological use: The Gabbra of the Kenyan/Ethiopian borderlands -- Günther Schlee / The Gabbra of the Kenyan/Ethiopian borderlands Günther Schlee -- part Part III Changing to order -- chapter 8 People's participation in environmental projects / Carol A. Drijver -- chapter 9 Intolerable environments: Towards a cultural reading of agrarian practice and policy in Rwanda Johan Pottier and August in Nkundabashaka / Towards a cultural reading of agrarian practice and policy in Rwanda Johan Pottier and Augustin Nkundabashaka -- chapter 10 Cows eat grass don't they? Evaluating conflict over pastoral management in Zimmbabwe -- Michael Drinkwater / Evaluating conflict over pastoral management in Zimbabwe Michael Drinkwater -- chapter 11 From sago to rice: Changes in cultivation in Siberut, Indonesia -- Gerard Persoon / Changes in cultivation in Siberut, Indonesia Gerard Persoon -- chapter 12 'Nature', 'culture' and disasters: Floods and gender in Bangladesh -- Rosalind Shaw / Floods and gender in Bangladesh Rosalind Shaw -- chapter 13 'Arctic ethno-ecology': Environmentalist debates in the Soviet North -- Igor Krupnik / Environmentalist debates in the Soviet North Igor Krupnik -- chapter 14 Landscape and self-determination among the Eveny: The political environment of Siberian reindeer herders today -- Piers Vitebsky / The political environment of Siberian reindeer herders today Piers Vitebsky |
| Summary |
Taking a unique anthropological apprach, Bush Base: Forest Farm explores the management of resources in third would development programmes. The contributors, all distinguished anthropologists with practical experience of development projects, focus on the role of human cultural imagination in the use of environmental resources. They challenge the traditional sharp distinction between human settlement and natual environment (farm or camp, forest or bush), and argue that development programmes should place at their centre an appreciation of people's cosmologies and cultural understandin |
| Analysis |
Asia |
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Africa |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Human ecology -- Cross-cultural studies
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Traditional farming -- Cross-cultural studies
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Agricultural ecology -- Cross-cultural studies
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Environmental policy -- Cross-cultural studies
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Agricultural ecology.
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Environmental policy.
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Human ecology.
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Traditional farming.
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| Genre/Form |
Cross-cultural studies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Croll, Elisabeth, 1944-2007.
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Parkin, David J
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| LC no. |
92249286 |
| ISBN |
0203036123 |
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9780203036129 |
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0203036123 |
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9786610331390 |
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6610331391 |
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9780415066563 |
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0415066565 |
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0415066573 |
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9780415066570 |
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9781134919567 |
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1134919565 |
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9781134919512 |
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1134919514 |
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9781134919550 |
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1134919557 |
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1280331399 |
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9781280331398 |
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0203314395 |
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9780203314395 |
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