Environmental Anthropology From Pigs to Policies

Name: Environmental Anthropology From Pigs to Policies
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ISBN: 9781577665816

ISBN-10: 1577665813

ISBN-13: 9781577665816

Edition: 2nd

Authors: Patricia K. Townsend

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"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, Patricia 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…

Book details

List price: $16.50
Edition: 2nd
Publisher: Waveland Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 119
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English




Introduction



Julian Steward's Cultural Ecology



Ethnoecology



Pigs for the Ancestors



Amazonian Hunters



Complex Societies



The Underground Environment: Minerals



The Climate Is Changing



Holy Ground



Population



Biodiversity and Health



It Isn't Easy Being Green



Consumer Cultures


Glossary


References


Index