Environmentalism: The View From Anthropology

by Kay Milton

Located in a wide spectrum of current research and practice, from analyses of green ideology and imagery, enviromental law and policy, and local enviromental activism in the West to ethnographic studies of relationships between humans and their enviroments in hunter/gatherer societies, The View from Anthropology offers an original perspective on what is probably the best-known issue of the late twentieth century. It will be particularly useful to all social scientists interested in environmentalism and human ecology, to environmental policy-makers and to undergraduates, lecturers and researchers in social anthropology, development studies and sociology.

Genres: Anthropology

252 pages, Paperback

First published October 21, 1993

About the author

Professor Kay Milton, BA (Durham), PhD (QUB), Professor of Social Anthropology is Director of the Anthropology research network in the School of History and Anthropology. Her research interests include environmental and ecological anthropology: environmental activism as cultural practice; environmental discourse in local and global contexts; the use of anthropological knowledge to address environmental issues; how human beings relate, through their cultural ideas and actions, to the non-human world; environmental perception and understanding through emotional and cognitive processes, the role of religion in human–environment relations.

Reviews

[Jake · Rating 3 out of 5]

Any edited book this old is likely to have some chapters that have aged well and others which have not stood the test of time. This is certainly the case with this book. Some chapters are engaging, interesting and relevant while others are dull, out of date and at times slightly odd.

I particularly enjoyed the chapter by Paul Richards.

[split zalv · Rating 4 out of 5]

Introduction and the first chapter