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Environmentalism and Cultural Theory: Exploring the Role of Anthropology in Environmental Discourse

Paperback

Main Details

Title Environmentalism and Cultural Theory: Exploring the Role of Anthropology in Environmental Discourse
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Kay Milton
SeriesEnvironment and Society
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback
Pages:288
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 138
Category/GenreApplied ecology
Conservation of the environment
ISBN/Barcode 9780415115308
ClassificationsDewey:304.2
Audience
Undergraduate
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Publishing Details

Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint Routledge
Publication Date 5 September 1996
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

The last decade has seen a dramatic increase in the attention paid by social scientists to environmental issues, and a gradual acknowledgement, in the wider community, of the role of social science in the public debate on sustainability. At the same time, the concept of culture', once the property of anthropologists has gained wide currency among social scientist. These trends have taken place against a growing perception, among specialist and public, of the global nature of contemporary issues. This book shows how an understanding of culture can throw light on the way environmental issues are perceived and interpreted, both by local communities and within the contemporary global arena. Taking an anthropological approach the book examines the relationship between human culture and human ecology, and considers how a cultural approach to the study of environmental issues differs from other established approaches in social science. This book adds significantly to our understanding of environmentalism as a contemporary phenomenon, by demonstrating the distinctive contribution of social and cultural anthropology to the environmental debate. It will be of particular interest to students and researchers in the fields of social science and the environment.

Reviews

." . . Milton advances a theoretical standard for a cultural ecology enmeshed in questions of environmental degradation. . . . Milton's book is important because she refuses to give up the search for explanatory theories in the face of intractable environmental problems.."
-"American Anthropologist