Caring for Place
Left Coast Press Inc (Verlag)
978-1-61132-959-9 (ISBN)
How can cultural forms motivate people to care about their environment? While important scientific data about ecosystems is mushrooming, E. N. Anderson argues in this powerful new book that putting effective conservation into practice depends primarily on social solidarity and emotional factors. Marshaling decades of research on cultures across several continents, he shows how societies have been more or less successful in sustainably managing their environments based on collective engagements such as religion, art, song, myth, and story. This provocative and deeply felt book by a leading writer and scholar in human ecology and anthropology will be read and debated widely for years to come.
E. N. Anderson is Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus, at the University of California, Riverside. He has done research on ethnobiology, cultural ecology, political ecology and medical anthropology in several areas, especially Hong Kong, British Columbia, California and the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. His books include The Food of China (Yale University Press, 1988), Ecologies of the Heart (Oxford University Press, 1996), Political Ecology of a Yucatec Maya Community (University Press of Arizona Press, 2005) and The Pursuit of Ecotopia (Praeger, 2010). In 2013 he received the Distinguished Ethnobiology Award from the Society for Ethnobiology.
Preface and Acknowledgments, Part I Representation, Part II Areas: Particular Cultures, Part III Broader Regions, References, Index, About the Author
Verlagsort | Walnut Creek |
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Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 498 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical |
Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Liturgik / Homiletik | |
Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-61132-959-0 / 1611329590 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-61132-959-9 / 9781611329599 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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