Förlagets beskrivning
The relationships between humans and their natural surroundings is
paradoxical. They impose knowledge and action on the world around them, yet at
the same time subscribe to myths and beliefs which portray them and their
natural suroundings as inseparable, with neither more powerful than the other.
This paradox is explored in the essays in Bush Base: Forest Farm , which uses
an anthropological perpective to direct new light on development and
environmental studies. The contributors, all anthropologists with practical
experience of development programmes, present case studies drawn from Africa
and Asia, and reflect upon their theoretical implications. They reject the
traditional sharp dichotomies of human settlement and external natural
environment - farm or camp on the one hand, and forest or bush on the other -
and suggest instead that the people, their indigenous knowledge and their fores
or bush exist within each other. They argue that although the concept of
sustainable development takes greater cognisance of the environment there is
still a need to place at the centre an appreciation of people's cosmologies and
cultural understandings. Combining practical experience with theoretical rigour, the book looks
critically at a number of key approaches to third world development. It will be
essential reading for students, teachers and policy makers in anthropology,
development studies and environmental studies. Taking a unique anthropological approach, the contributors explore the
management of resources in Third World development programmes, focusing on the
role of human cultural imagination in the use of environmental resources.
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