Ethnographies of Conservation : : Environmentalism and the Distribution of Privilege / / ed. by David G. Anderson, Eeva Berglund.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Adams, Cristina,; Anderson, David G.,; Berglund, Eeva,; Chatty, Dawn,; Ellis, David M.,; Frost, Nicola,; Halder, Bornali,; Novellino, Dario,; Nugent, Stephen,; Nygren, Anja,; Rolle, Luna,; Sullivan, Sian,; Wrangham, Rachel,
• HerausgeberIn: Anderson, David G.,; Berglund, Eeva,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2003]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (242 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- MAPS AND FIGURES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS -- Introduction: Towards an Ethnography of Ecological Underprivilege -- Part I: Anthropology, Ecopolitics and Discrimination -- 1 Pitfalls of Synchronicity: A Case Study of the Caiçaras in the Atlantic Rainforest of South-eastern Brazil -- 2 Nature as Contested Terrain: Conflicts Over Wilderness Protection and Local Livelihoods in Río San Juan, Nicaragua -- 3 The Environment at the Periphery: Conflicting Discourses on the Forest in Tanimbar, Eastern Indonesia -- Part II: Distributing Justice within Protected Landscapes -- 4 Protest, Conflict and Litigation: Dissent or Libel in Resistance to a Conservancy in North-west Namibia -- 5 Environmentalism in the Syrian Badia: The Assumptions of Degradation, Protection and Bedouin Misuse -- 6 ‘Ecocide and Genocide’: Explorations of Environmental Justice in Lakota Sioux Country -- 7 Promoting Consumption in the Rainforest: Global Conservation in Papua New Guinea -- Part III: Writing Environmentalis -- 8 ‘We still are Soviet People’: Youth Ecological Culture in the Republic of Tatarstan and the Legacy of the Soviet Union -- 9 The Ecology of Markets in Central Siberia -- 10 Contrasting Landscapes, Conflicting Ontologies: Assessing Environmental Conservation on Palawan Island (The Philippines) -- 11 Ecologism as an Idiom in Amazonian Anthropology -- Bibliography -- Index