ISBN:
9780415517485
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (626 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Anthropology
Parallel Title:
Print version Environmental Anthropology: Future Directions
DDC:
304.2
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This volume presents new theoretical approaches, methodologies, subject pools, and topics in the field of environmental anthropology. Environmental anthropologists are increasingly focusing on self-reflection - not just on themselves and their impacts on environmental research, but also on the reflexive qualities of their subjects, and the extent to which these individuals are questioning their own environmental behavior. Here, contributors confront the very notion of ""natural resources"" in granting non-human species their subjectivity and arguing for deeper understanding of ""nature,"" and
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; Introduction: Environmental Anthropology of Today and Tomorrow; Environmental Justice; Environmental Values, Anthropocentrism, and Ecocentrism; Human Nature and Universals; Human Nature; Human Universals; Interdisciplinarity; The Future of Environmental Anthropology: Introducing the Chapters; Pathways: Reflections on Self and Society; Health, Risk Assessment, and Prediction; Solutions-Based Research and Alternative Methodologies and Lifeways; References
Description / Table of Contents:
Pathways: Reflections on the Self and Society1. The Mundane Bicycle and the Environmental Virtues of Sustainable Urban Mobility; Situating Bicycle Mobility and Technology in Environmental Anthropology; Shifting Historical Views on Bicycles and Environmental Virtue; Dilemmas of Bicycle Sustainability; The Mundane Urban Bicycle; Conclusion; Notes; References; 2. Requiem for Roadkill: Death and Denial on America's Roads; What is Roadkill?; Conclusion: Implications for Environmental Anthropology; Notes; References
Description / Table of Contents:
3. The Future of Environmental Anthropology: Bringing Smallholder Agriculture Research to the CityUrban Agriculture in Montevideo; Data Collection and Research Methodology; Three Distinct Cases; Community Gardens; APODU-The Nascent Organic Movement in Montevideo; Clasificadores: Raising Hogs and Living off the Trash (CCdCs); Conclusion; References; 4. Future Directions in Environmental Anthropology: Incorporating the Ethnography of Environmental Education; Introduction; The Formal Perspective; Informal Perspective; Emotion and Nature; Directions in Anthropology of Environmental Education
Description / Table of Contents:
ConclusionsNotes; References; Health, Risk Assessment, and Prediction; 5. Ecomyopia Meets the Longue Durée: An Information Ecology of the Increasingly Arid Southwestern United States; Introduction; Study Area, Methods, and Conceptual Devices; Study Area: Background of the Political Geography, Water Resources, and Water Management Institutions of the Arid Southwest; Method for Theory; Basic Conceptual Devices; Stability Theory; Results: The Conceptual Models; Graphic Model 1 (Figure 5.7); Graphic Model 2a (Figure 5.8); Graphic Model 2b (Figure 5.9); Graphic Model 3a (Figure 5.10)
Description / Table of Contents:
Graphic Model 3b (Figure 5.11)New Hypotheses as an Emergent Property of Model Building; Discussion: Toward an Epistemological Transition; Limits to Stability Theory: The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable; The Future as More Than an Information Environment; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; 6. Sedna's Children: Inuit Elders' Perceptions of Climate Change and Food Security; Introducing a Health Ecology Model; Sedna's Story; The Research Setting: The Four Communities; Research Methods; Analysis of Central Themes; Theme 1: Food Security; Theme 2: Maintenance of Sharing Networks
Description / Table of Contents:
Theme 3: The Right to Harvest Traditional Foods
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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