Bush Base, Forest Farm: Culture, Environment, and Development

by Elisabeth Croll (Editor), David J. Parkin (Editor)

Taking a unique anthropological apprach, Bush Base: Forest Farm explores the management of resources in third world development programmes. The contributors, all distinguished anthropologists with practical experience of development projects, focus on the role of human cultural imagination in the use of environmental resources. They challenge the traditional sharp distinction between human settlement and natual environment (farm or camp, forest or bush), and argue that development programmes should place at their centre an appreciation of people's cosmologies and cultural understandings.

263 pages, Paperback

First published February 7, 1992

About the author

Sinologist academic specialising in gender studies.