Troubles With Turtles: Cultural Understandings of the Environment in a Greek Island

Theodossopoulos, Dimitris

ISBN 10 : 1571815961 ISBN 13 : 9781571815965

Editeur : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2003

Synopsis

The people of Vassilikos, farmers and tourist entrepreneurs on the Greek island of Zakynthos, are involved in a bitter environmental dispute concerning the conservation of sea turtles. Against the environmentalists' practices and ideals they set their own culture of relating to the land, cultivation, wild and domestic animals.

Written from an anthropological perspective, this book puts forward the idea that a thorough study of indigenous cultures is a fundamental step to understanding conflicts over the environment. For this purpose, the book offers a detailed account of the cultural depth and richness of the human environmental relationship in Vassilikos, focusing on the engagement of its inhabitants with diverse aspects of the local environment, such as animal care, agriculture, tourism and hunting.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Dimitris Theodossopoulos is a Reader at the University of Kent. In the early nineties he carried out fieldwork on environmental politics and the indigenous perceptions of the environment in rural Greece. He is currently teaching anthropology and writing on a variety of themes, ranging from the human-environmental relationship to the ethnography of conflict and nationalism in the Balkans. His most recent field of interest focuses on Greek attitudes towards the Turks and the Greco-Turkish politics of friendship.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1571815961
• ISBN 13: 9781571815965
• Reliure: Belle reliure
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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