Environmental Anthropology

<i>Environmental Anthropology: A Reader</i> is a collection of historically significant readings, dating from early in the twentieth century up to the present, on the cross-cultural study of relations between people and their environment. <ul> <li>Provides the historical perspective that is typically missing from recent work in environmental anthropology</li> <li>Includes an extensive intellectual history and commentary by the volume’s editors</li> <li>Offers a unique perspective on current interest in cross-cultural environmental relations</li> <li>Divided into five thematic sections: (1) the nature/culture divide; (2) relationship between environment and social organization; (3) methodological debates and innovations; (4) politics and practice; and (5) epistemological issues of environmental anthropology</li> <li>Organized into a series of paired papers, which ‘speak’ to each other, designed to encourage readers to make connections that they might not customarily make</li> </ul>