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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455247503321

Titolo

Bush base : forest farm : culture, environment, and development / / edited by Elisabeth Croll and David Parkin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1992

ISBN

1-134-91956-5

1-280-33139-9

0-203-31439-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (276 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CrollElisabeth J

ParkinDavid J

Disciplina

304.2

910.019

Soggetti

Human ecology - Africa

Human ecology - Asia

Nature - Effect of human beings on - Africa

Nature - Effect of human beings on - Asia

Environmental psychology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally presented at a workshop at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, June 1989.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures and tables; List of contributors; Preface; Anthropology, the environment and development Elisabeth Croll and David Parkin; Cultural understandings of the environment Elisabeth Croll and David Parkin; Culture and the perception of the environment Tim Ingold; The Dogon and their trees Walter E.A.van Beek and Pieteke M.Banga; Women's crops in women's spaces: Gender relations in Mende rice farming Melissa Leach; Ideas and usage: Environment in Aouan society, Ivory Coast Jan P.M.van den Breemer

Ritual topography and ecological use: The Gabbra of the Kenyan/Ethiopian borderlands Gnther SchleePeople's participation in environmental projects Carol A.Drijver; Intolerable environments: Towards a cultural reading of agrarian practice and policy in Rwanda



Johan Pottier and August in Nkundabashaka; Cows eat grass don't they? Evaluating conflict over pastoral management in Zimmbabwe Michael Drinkwater; From sago to rice: Changes in cultivation in Siberut, Indonesia Gerard Persoon; 'Nature', 'culture' and disasters: Floods and gender in Bangladesh Rosalind Shaw

'Arctic ethno-ecology': Environmentalist debates in the Soviet North Igor KrupnikLandscape and self-determination among the Eveny: The political environment of Siberian reindeer herders today Piers Vitebsky; Name index; Subject index

Sommario/riassunto

Taking a unique anthropological apprach, Bush Base: Forest Farm explores the management of resources in third would development programmes. The contributors, all distinguished anthropologists with practical experience of development projects, focus on the role of human cultural imagination in the use of environmental resources. They challenge the traditional sharp distinction between human settlement and natual environment (farm or camp, forest or bush), and argue that development programmes should place at their centre an appreciation of people's cosmologies and cultural understandin