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Bush Base, Forest Farm : Culture, Environment, and Development. Cover Image

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

Croll, Elisabeth. (Author). Parkin, David. (Added Author).

Summary: 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 understandin.

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ISBN: 9780203036129
ISBN: 0203036123
ISBN: 9780415066563
ISBN: 0415066565
ISBN: 9780415066570
ISBN: 0415066573
Physical Description: 1 online resource (276 pages)
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Publisher: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2002.

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:february.19 Multi-User.
Formatted Contents Note:	'Arctic ethno-ecology': Environmentalist debates in the Soviet North Igor KrupnikLandscape and self-determination among the Eveny: The political environment of Siberian reindeer herders today Piers Vitebsky; Name index; Subject index.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription.
Language Note:	English.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.