Environmental Anthropology

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 119 pages
• Published by: Waveland Pr Inc
• Edition: 2nd Edition June 30, 2008
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 1577665813
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-1577665816
• Book Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.3 inches
• Weighs: 4.8 ounces

Product Description
Environmental anthropologists organize the realities of interdependent lands, plants, animals, and human beings; advocate for the neediest among them; and provide understandings that preserve what is needed for the survival of a diverse world. Can the things that anthropologists have learned in their studies of small-scale systems have any relevance for developing policies to address global problems? Townsend explores this dilemma in her captivating, concise exploration of environmental anthropology and its place among the discipline's subfields. Maintaining the structure and clarity of the previous edition, the second edition has been revised throughout to include new research, expanded discussions of climate change, and a chapter devoted to spiritual ecology. In the historical overview of the field, Townsend shows how ideas and approaches developed earlier are relevant to understanding how today's local populations adapt to their physical and biological environments. She next presents a closer look at global environmental issues--rapid expansion of the world economic system, disease and poverty, the loss of biodiversity and its implications for human health--to demonstrate the effects of interactions between local and global communities. As a capstone, she gives thoughtful consideration to how, as professionals and as individuals, we can move toward personal engagement with environmental problems.

Publisher Description
Titles of related interest from Waveland Press: Endicott-Endicott, The Headman Was a Woman: The Gender Egalitarian Batek of Malaysia (ISBN 9781577665267); Netting, Cultural Ecology, Second Edition (ISBN 9780881332049); and Rappaport, Pigs for the Ancestors: Ritual in the Ecology of a New Guinea People, Second Edition (ISBN 9781577661016).

Reader Reviews
This review is from: Environmental Anthropology: From Pigs to Policies (Paperback) This is a useful book for those planning on getting into Environmental Anthropology (because there are so many of us). Gives a good introduction on what Env. Anth is all about