Environmentalism and cultural theory : exploring the role of anthropology in environmental discourse / Kay Milton.
The last decade has seen a dramatic increase in the attention paid by social scientists to environmental issues, and a gradual acknowledgement in the wider community, of the role of social science in the public debate on sustainability. At the same time, the concept of "culture", once the...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1996.
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| Series: | Environment and society.
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| Online Access: | SocINDEX with Full Text |
| Summary: | The last decade has seen a dramatic increase in the attention paid by social scientists to environmental issues, and a gradual acknowledgement in the wider community, of the role of social science in the public debate on sustainability. At the same time, the concept of "culture", once the property of anthropologists, has gained wide currency among social scientists. The book shows how an understanding of culture can throw light on the way environmental issues are perceived and interpreted, both by local communities and within the contemporary global arena. Taking an anthropological approach, the book examines the relationship between human culture and human ecology, and considers how a cultural approach to the study of environmental issues differs from other established approaches in social science. This book adds significantly to our understanding of environmentalism as a contemporary phenomenon, by demonstrating the distinctive contribution of social and cultural anthropology to the environmental debate. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 266 pages). |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0203205448 1134821069 1134821077 1280354771 9780203205440 9781134821068 9781134821075 9781280354779 |