General Book Search for "9781571814647"

Ethnographies of Conservation

Hardback
Published : Thursday 20 March 2003
ISBN : 9781571814647
Price : €115.83


Description

Anthropologists know that conservation often disempowers already under-privileged groups, and that it also fails to protect environments. Through a series of ethnographic studies, this book argues that the real problem is not the disappearance of "pristine nature" or even the land-use practices of uneducated people. Rather, what we know about culturally determined patterns of consumption, production and unequal distribution, suggests that critical attention would be better turned on discourses of "primitiveness" and "pristine nature" so prevalent within conservation ideology, and on the historically formed power and exchange relationships that they help perpetuate.



You may also like ...

Product

We Are Famous! #2

Hardback
04 Aug 2020
Childrens / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction

€18.71

Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
Product

We Are Famous! #2

Paperback
04 Aug 2020
Childrens / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction

€8.18

Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
Product

The Shark Report #1

Paperback
04 Feb 2020
Childrens / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction

€8.18

Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
Product

What About Harry?

Hardback
19 Feb 2019

€21.05

Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days

Reviews