1st Edition

Redefining Nature Ecology, Culture and Domestication

Edited By Roy Ellen, Katsuyoshi Fukui Copyright 1996
688 Pages
by Routledge

688 Pages
by Routledge

692 Pages
by Routledge

- How can anthropology improve our understanding of the interrelationship between nature and culture?- What can anthropology contribute to practical debates which depend on particular definitions of nature, such as that concerning sustainable development?Humankind has evolved over several million years by living in and utilizing 'nature' and by assimilating it into 'culture'. Indeed, the... Read more
Introduction, Part I Nature as a Cultural Concept, Part II Relations Between Specific Domesticates and Human Populations, Part III Nature, Co-evolution and the Problem of Cultural Adaptation

Biography

Roy Ellen Professor of Anthropology and Human Ecology,University of Kent at Canterbury Katsuyoshi Fukui Professor of Anthropology, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan