Bush Base, Forest Farm: Culture, Environment, and Development

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ISBN: 9780415066570 | 0415066573
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Copyright: 7/21/1992

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Taking a unique anthropological approach, the contributors explore the management of resources in Third World development programmes, focusing on the role of human cultural imagination in the use of environmental resources.

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Preface	p. x
Bush Base: Forest Farm	p. 1
Anthropology, the Environment and Development	p. 3
Cultural Understandings of the Environment	p. 11
Ecocosmologies	p. 37
Culture and the Perception of the Environment	p. 39
References	p. 54
The Dogon and Their Trees	p. 57
References	p. 74
Women's Crops in Women's Spaces	p. 76
Ideas and Usage	p. 97
Ritual Topography and Ecological Use	p. 110
Changing to Order	p. 129
People's Participation in Environmental Projects	p. 131
References	p. 144
Intolerable Environments	p. 146
Cows Eat Grass Don't They?	p. 169
From Sago to Rice	p. 187
'Nature', 'Culture' and Disasters	p. 200
References	p. 216
'Arctic Ethno-Ecology'	p. 218
Landscape and Self-Determination among the Eveny	p. 223
Name Index	p. 247
Subject Index	p. 251
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