New Directions in Anthropology and Environment - by Carole L Crumley (Paperback)

About the Book

Crumley has brought together top scholars from across anthropology in a benchmark volume that displays the range of exciting new work on the complex relationship between humans and the environment. Designed for classroom use in and beyond anthropology, this book will be import...

Book Synopsis

Crumley has brought together top scholars from across anthropology in a benchmark volume that displays the range of exciting new work on the complex relationship between humans and the environment. Designed for classroom use in and beyond anthropology, this book will be important for all scholars and non-academics interested in the relation between our species and its biotic and built environments.

Review Quotes

As review articles, all the essays are informative and potentially useful, pointing the way towards work that could be followed up in more detail. In this sense, they serve their purpose as introductions to environmental anthropology and its various subfields. In particular, Tsing's analysis of the relations among environmental history, science studies, political ecology, and cultural anthropology in the creation of particular strands of interdisciplinary scholarship is insightful, especially when paired with Dove's demonstration of and reflections on interdisciplinary borrowing in ecological anthropology.... [This book] highlights some important developments in the field, and it forcefully advocates anthropology's engagement in environmental discourse. Some chapters, those of Sponsel, Dove, and Ingerson, in particular, will become central to my course reading lists, while some others might be recommended as useful illustrations.

The papers in this volume offer a rich and varied menu sure to delight young scholars seeking to engage environmental issues through an anthropological prism. From approaches to the construction of nature to the emergence of a spiritual ecology, engagement with environmentalism, historical ecology, and political ecology readers will find much food for thought in these pages.

About the Author

Carole L. Crumley is professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a member of the Executive Board of the Carolina Environmental Program. She is secretary of the American Anthropological Association, and past president and founding member of the AAA Anthropology and Environment Section.