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

Bush Base, Forest Farm: Culture, Environment, and Development
ISBN-10
1134919557
ISBN-13
9781134919550
Category
Social Science
Pages
309
Language
English
Published
2002-03-11
Publisher
Routledge
Authors
David Parkin, Elisabeth Croll

Description

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.

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