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

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

Overview

Taking a unique anthropological apprach, Bush Base: Forest Farm explores the management of resources in third would 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415066563
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/02/1992
Series:	European Inter-University Development Opportunity Study Group Series
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Elisabeth Croll and David Parkin are members of the Department of Anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Table of Contents

List of figures and tables, List of contributors, Preface, Part I Bush base: forest farm, Part II Ecocosmologies, Part III Changing to order, Name index, Subject index