Roy (Hrsg.) Ellen

Modern Crises and Traditional Strategies

Local Ecological Knowledge in Island Southeast Asia

Buch

Probably more than any other British anthropologist, Roy Ellen is associated with the study of ethnobiology; his has also long ranked among the leading names in the field . . . Both readers new to Ellen as well as thosealready familiar with his work will find this collection rewarding. American AnthropologistThe 1990s have seen a growing interest in the role of local ecological knowledge in the context of sustainable development, and particularly in providing a set of responses to which populations may resort in times of political, economic and environmental instability. The period 1996-2003 in island southeast Asia represents a critical test… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-0-85745-145-3
EAN: 9780857451453
Produktnummer: 11145673
Verlag: Berghahn Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Seitenangabe: 288 S.
Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.5 cm 421 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 421

Über den Autor

Roy Ellen was educated at the London School of Economics and is Professor of Anthropology and Human Ecology at the University of Kent at Canterbury, where he has taught since 1973. His numerous and varied publications include Environment, Subsistence and System (Cambridge University Press, 1982), The Cultural Relations of Classification (Cambridge University Press, 1993), and most recently, The Categorical Impulse (Berghahn Books, 2005). He convenes the Kent Programme in Ethnobotany and has published widely on indigenous knowledge. In 2003 he was elected to a fellowship of the British Academy.