Culture and the Changing Environment: Uncertainty, Cognition, and Risk Management in Cross-Cultural Perspective - Couverture souple

 
9781845456832: Culture and the Changing Environment: Uncertainty, Cognition, and Risk Management in Cross-Cultural Perspective
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ISBN 10 : 1845456831 ISBN 13 : 9781845456832
Editeur : Berghahn Books, 2009

Synopsis

Today human ecology has split into many different sub-disciplines such as historical ecology, political ecology or the New Ecological Anthropology. The latter in particular has criticised the predominance of the Western view on different ecosystems, arguing that culture-specific world views and human-environment interactions have been largely neglected. However, these different perspectives only tackle specific facets of a local and global hyper-complex reality. In bringing together a variety of views and theoretical approaches, these especially commissioned essays prove that an interdisciplinary collaboration and understanding of the extreme complexity of the human-environment interface(s) is possible.

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À propos de l'auteur

Michael J. Casimir is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Cologne. He has conducted prolonged fieldwork on the ecology, economy, environmental management and nutritional and socialisation patterns among pastoral nomads in west Afghanistan and Kashmir. Together with Aparna Rao he was chairperson of the Commission on Nomadic Peoples of the International Union of Ethnological and Anthropological Sciences (1995-1998), and was until 2004 one of the editors of Nomadic Peoples (Berghahn), the official journal of the Commission. His major publications include Flocks and Food. A Biocultural Approach to the Study of Pastoral Foodways (1991); Mobility and Territoriality (ed. 1992); Nomadism in South Asia (ed. 2003).

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Éditeur
Berghahn Books
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1845456831
ISBN 13 
9781845456832
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
410
Éditeur
Casimir Michael J.
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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