Ethnographies of Conservation
Environmentalism and the Distribution of Privilege
Anthropologists know that conservation often disempowers already under-privileged groups, and that it also fails to protect environments. Through a series of ethnographic studies, this book argues that the real problem is not the disappearance of pristine nature or even the land-use practices of uneducated people. Rather, what we know about culturally determined patterns of consumption, production and unequal distribution, suggests that critical attention would be better turned on discourses of primitiveness and pristine nature so prevalent within conservation ideology, and on the historically formed power and exchange relationships that the…
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Weitere Autoren: Berglund, Eeva (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-57181-464-7
- EAN: 9781571814647
- Produktnummer: 19824224
- Verlag: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Seitenangabe: 242 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.0 cm 472 g
- Gewicht: 472
- Sonstiges: Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Über den Autor
Eeva Berglund was Lecturer in Anthropology at Goldsmiths College from 1998 to 2002 and has written on the anthropology and history of environmental politics.
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