Routledge Handbook of Environmental Anthropology (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Kopnina, Helen; Shoreman-Ouimet, Eleanor

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This Handbook provides a comprehensive survey of contemporary topics in environmental anthropology and thorough discussions on the current state and prospective future of the field in seven key sections. As the contributions to this Handbook demonstrate, the subfield of environmental anthropology is responding to cultural adaptations and responses to environmental changes in multiple and complex ways. As a discipline concerned primarily with human-environment interaction, environmental anthropologists recognize that we are now working within a pressure cooker of rapid environmental damage that is forcing behavioural and often cultural changes around the world. As we see in the breadth of topics presented in this volume, these environmental challenges have inspired renewed foci on traditional topics such as food procurement, ethnobiology, and spiritual ecology; and a broad new range of subjects, such as resilience, nonhuman rights, architectural anthropology, industrialism, and education.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 472
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317667957
• Artikelnr.: 45695454

Autorenporträt

Helen Kopnina is assistant professor of environmental anthropology at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University, the Netherlands. She is also a coordinator and lecturer within the Sustainable Business Program and researcher in the fields of environmental education and environmental social sciences at The Hague University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands. Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet is an environmental anthropologist and currently teaches in the Anthropology Department at the University of Connecticut, USA. Her research focuses on human-environment interactions, cross-cultural conservation practices, community response to natural hazards, and the effects of climate change.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: The Development of Environmental Anthropology 1. Introduction 2.
History and Scope of Environmental Anthropology 3. Ethnobiology and the New
Environmental Anthropology 4. Anthropology and the Environment: Beginnings
5. Ethnoscientific implications of classification as a socio-cultural
process Part 2: Investigations in sub-fields of environmental anthropology
6. Enviromateriality: Exploring the Links between Political Ecology and
Material Culture Studies 7. Historical Ecology: Agency in Human-Environment
Interaction 8. Architectural Anthropology: Developing methodological
framework for Indigenous wellbeing 9. Beyond "nature": Towards more engaged
and care-full ways of relating to the environment Part 3: Ecological
Knowledge, Belief and Sustainability 10. An Anthropology of Nature - or an
Industrialist Anthropology? 11. Spiritual Ecology, Sacred Places, and
Biodiversity Conservation 12. The Bible, Religion, and the Environment 13.
What's ontology got to do with it? On the knowledge of nature and the
nature of knowledge in environmental anthropology 14. Unsustainability in
action: An ethnographic examination 15. Anthropological Approaches to
Energy Part 4: Climate Change, Resilience and Vulnerability 16. Disasters
and Their Impact: A Fundamental Feature of Environment 17. The Concepts of
Adaptation, Vulnerability and Resilience in the Anthropology of Climate
Change 18. Climate, Environment and Society in Northwest Greenland 19.
Taking Responsibility for Climate Change: On Human Adaptation, Sustainable
Consumption and Environmental Governance 20. Climate change adaptation and
development planning: from resilience to transformation? Part 5: Justice,
ethics, and governance 21. Justice for All: inconvenient truths and
reconciliation in human-non-human relations 22. Environmental Ethics and
Environmental Anthropology 23. Battle of the Ecologies-Deep vs. Political:
An Investigation of Anthropocentrism in the Social Sciences 24. 'Good
governance', corruption, and forest protection: critical insights from
environmental anthropology 25. Cultural ecotourism as an indigenous
modernity: Namibian Bushmen and two contradictions of capitalism Part 6:
Health, Population, and Environment 26. Local and organic food movements
27. Anthropocentrism and the making of Environmental Health 28.
Multi-Species Entanglements, Anthropology and Environmental Health Justice
29. Challenging the Conventional Wisdom: Breast Cancer and Environmental
Health 30. Excessive Human Numbers in a World of Finite Limits: Confronting
the Threshold of Collapse Part 7: Environment and Education 31. Children's
language about the environment 32. "You have to do it": Creating Agency for
Environmental Sustainability through Experiential Education 33. Cognition
and cultural modeling 34. Perceiving Nature's Personhood: Anthropological
Enhancements to Environmental Education 35. Schooling the World: Land-based
pedagogies and the culture of schooling