Anthropology and the Environment
PublicationsFrom the inaugural Anthropology & Environment session at the 1996 American Anthropological Association meetings:
New Directions in Anthropology & Environment: Intersections
ALTAMIRA Press.
Edited by Carole L. Crumley with Elizabeth van Deventer and Joseph
J. Fletcher.
Contributors: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Luisa Maffi, Willett Kempton,
Donald L. Hardesty and Don D. Fowler, Michael R. Dove, Thomas L. Leatherman
and R. Brooke Thomas, Barbara Rose Johnston, J. Peter Brosius, Leslie E.
Sponsel, Kathryn R. Winthrop, Bonnie J. McCay, and Eric C. Poncelet
Carole Crumley has brought together top anthropological scholars in a benchmark volume that displays the range of exciting new work on the complex relationship between humans and the environment. Affirming anthropology's persistent claim that both the physical and the mental world matter, these contributors proceed from the holistic assumption that the physical world and human societies are always inextricably linked. As they incorporate diverse forms of knowledge, their work reaches beyond anthropology to bridge the sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities, and to fore working relationships with nonacademic communities and professionals. Theoretical issues such as the cultural dimensions of context, knowledge, and power are articulated alongside practical discussions of building partnerships, research methods and ethics, and strategies for implementing policy.