The anthropology of sustainability : beyond development and progress /: beyond development and progress. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Marc Brightman, Jerome Lewis.
• Editors: Brightman, Marc; Lewis, Jerome
• Contents: 1. Introduction: The Anthropology of Sustainability2. Anthropology at the Time of the Anthropocene: A Personal View of What is to be Studied3. A Threat to Holocene Resurgence is a Threat to Livability4. What can Sustainability do for Anthropology?5. Interlude: Perceiving Human Nature through Imagined Non-Human Situations6. 'They call it Shangri-La': Sustainable Conservation, or African Enclosures?7. Conservation From Above: Globalising Care for Nature8. Different Knowledge Regimes and some Consequences for "Sustainability"9. The Viability of a High Arctic Hunting Community: A Historical Perspective10. Ebola in Meliandou: Tropes of "Sustainability" at Ground Zero11. Anthropology and The Nature-Society-Development Nexus12. The Gaia Complex: Ethical Challenges to an Anthropocentric "Common Future"13. Interlude: Performing Gaia14. Sustaining the Pluriverse: The Political Ontology of Territorial Struggles in Latin America15. Traditional People, Collectors of Diversity16. Local Struggles with Entropy: Caipora and Other Demons17. Redesigning Money to Curb Globalization: Can We Domesticate the Root of All Evil?.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 304.2; Sustainability -- Social aspects; Anthropology; Human ecology
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137566362
• Related ISBNs: 9781137566355
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