Environmental anthropology : a historical reader / edited by Michael R. Dove and Carol Carpenter.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction : Major historical currents in environmental anthropology / Michael R. Dove and Carol Carpenter -- Indigenous management of tropical forest ecosystems : the case of the Kayapó Indians of the Brazilian Amazon / Darrell Addison Posey -- False forest history, complicit social analysis : rethinking some West African environnmental narratives / James Fairhead and Melissa Leach -- Interest in cattle / E.E. Evans-Pritchard -- The cultural ecology of India's sacred cattle / Marvin Harris -- Seasonal variations of the Eskimo : a study in social morphology / Marcel Mauss -- The Great Basin Shoshonean Indians : an example of a family level of sociocultural integration / Julian H. Steward -- Ecologic relationships of ethnic groups in Swat, North Pakistan / Fredrik Barth -- The wet and the dry : traditional irrigation in Bali and Morocco / Clifford Geertz -- Critical pressures on food supply and their economic effects / Raymond Firth -- How the Enga cope with frost : responses to climatic perturbations in the central highlands of New Guinea / Eric Waddell -- An ethnoecological approach to shifting agriculture / Harold C. Conklin -- Slash-and-burn agriculture : a closer look at its implications for settlement patterns / Robert L. Carneiro -- Ritual regulation of environmental relations among a New Guinea people / Roy A. Rappaport -- Why hunters gather : optimal foraging and the Aché of Eastern Paraguay / Kristen Hawkes, Kim Hill, and James F. O'Connell -- Foragers, genuine or spurious? Situating the Kalahari San in history / Jacqueline S. Solway and Richard B. Lee -- Links and boundaries : reconsidering the Alpine village as ecosystem / Robert McC. Netting -- Forest knowledge, forest transformation : political contingency, historical ecology, and the renegotiation of nature in Central Seram / Roy Ellen -- Articulating indigenous identity in Indonesia : resource politics and the tribal slot / Tania Murray Li -- Green dots, pink hearts : displacing politics from the Malaysian rain forest / J. Peter Brosius -- Becoming a tribal elder, and other green development fantasies / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing -- People into places : Zafimaniry concepts of clarity / Maurice Bloch -- Pleasant places, past times, and sheltered identity in rural East Anglia / Charles O. Frake -- Effects of conscious purpose on human adaptation / Gregory Bateson -- Globes and spheres : the topology of environmentalism / Tim Ingold.