Confronting Environments
Local Understanding in a Globalizing World
Contributions by James G.Carrier, Donald Macleod, Dimitrios Theodossopoulos, Kenneth Iain MacDonald, Peter Wynn Kirby, Eeva Berglund, Kay Milton, Josiah Heyman Edited by James G. Carrier
Publication date:
17 October 2004Length of book:
208 pagesPublisher
AltaMira PressISBN-13: 9780759105621
6 x 9
Attentive to both thick description and general processes, exploring and critically engaging with the concepts of the local and the global, Confronting Environments represents an important moment in the revival and rethinking of environmental anthropology. Situating themselves at different ethnographic sites, the authors disentangle the 'environment' as well as the politics and abstractions frequently used to represent it. This book is to be recommended for environmentalists and students of human-environmental relations. It is a timely project, given the urgency of environmental problems and our failures to adequately act and to understand.