Environmental Anthropology Books

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1. Environmental Anthropology: Cross Disciplinary Investigations

   Edited by Helen Kopnina, Eleanor Shoreman

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-78156-5 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   The Perception of the Environment: Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill

   By Tim Ingold

   In this work Tim Ingold offers a persuasive approach to understanding how human beings perceive their surroundings. He argues that what we are used to calling cultural variation consists, in the first place, of variations in skill. Neither innate nor acquired, skills are grown, incorporated into...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-61747-5 | Paperback (Routledge)

3. Campsteading (paperback direct): Family, Place, and Experience at Squam Lake, New Hampshire

   By Derek Brereton

   The campstead is an American institution. After the Civil War, with neo-colonialism, environmentalism, and arts-and-crafts on the rise, some families sought rural locations for rustic camps. There they raised their children in the summertime. Around Squam Lake, after some eight generations,...

   May 2010 | 978-0-415-59200-0 | Paperback (Routledge)

4. Culture and the Environment in the Himalaya

   Edited by Arjun Guneratne

   This book is concerned with human-environment relations in the Himalaya. It explores how different populations and communities in the region understand or conceive of the concept of environment, how their concepts vary across lines of gender, class, age, status, and what this implies for policy...

   January 2010 | 978-0-415-77883-1 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Campsteading: Family, Place, and Experience at Squam Lake, New Hampshire

   By Derek Brereton

   The campstead is an American institution. After the Civil War, with neo-colonialism, environmentalism, and arts-and-crafts on the rise, some families sought rural locations for rustic camps. There they raised their children in the summertime. Around Squam Lake, after some eight generations,...

   December 2009 | 978-0-415-56296-6 | Hardback (Routledge)

6. A Crisis of Waste?: Understanding the Rubbish Society

   By Martin O'Brien

   This book takes a measured look at the 'crisis of waste' in modern society and it does so historically, sociologically and critically. It tells stories about past and present ‘crises’ of waste and puts them in their appropriate social and industrial contexts. From Charles Dickens to Don...

   2007 | 978-0-415-96098-4 | Hardback (Routledge)

7. The Changing Village Environment in Southeast Asia: Applied anthropology and environmental reclamation in the northern Philippines

   By Ben Wallace

   This book follows the work of the 'Good Roots Project' - a multi-year forestry and agriculture research project in the Philippines. The scheme is an attempt on the part of industry, science and the government to better understand the processes of deforestation and initiate a strategy by which...

   2005 | 978-0-415-36484-3 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   The Archaeology of Drylands: Living at the Margin

   By Graeme Barker, David Gilbertson

   Many dryland regions contain archaeological remains which suggest that there must have been intensive phases of settlement in what now seem to be dry and degraded environments. This book discusses successes and failures of past land use and settlement in drylands, and contributes to wider debates...

   2000 | 978-0-415-23001-8 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   The Perception of the Environment: Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill

   By Tim Ingold

   In this work Tim Ingold offers a persuasive approach to understanding how human beings perceive their surroundings. He argues that what we are used to calling cultural variation consists, in the first place, of variations in skill. Neither innate nor acquired, skills are grown, incorporated into...

   2000 | 978-0-415-22832-9 | Paperback (Routledge)
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    Environmental Risks and the Media

    Edited by Barbara Adam, Stuart Allan, Cynthia Carter

    Environmental Risks and the Media explores the ways in which environmental risks, threats and hazards are represented, transformed and contested by the media. At a time when popular conceptions of the environment as a stable, natural world with which humanity interferes are being increasingly...

    1999 | 978-0-415-21447-6 | Paperback (Routledge)