Environmental Anthropology

Environmental anthropologists organize the realities of interdependent lands, plants, animals, and human beings; advocate for the neediest among them; and provide understandings that preserve what is needed for the survival of a diverse world. Can the things that anthropologists have learned in their studies of small-scale systems have any relevance for developing policies to address global problems? Townsend explores this dilemma in her captivating, concise exploration of environmental anthropology and its place among the discipline's subfields. Maintaining the structure and clarity of the previous edition, the second edition has been revised throughout to include new research, expanded discussions of climate change, and a chapter devoted to spiritual ecology. In the historical overview of the field, Townsend shows how ideas and approaches developed earlier are relevant to understanding how today's local populations adapt to their physical and biological environments. She next presents a closer look at global environmental issues--rapid expansion of the world economic system, disease and poverty, the loss of biodiversity and its implications for human health--to demonstrate the effects of interactions between local and global communities. As a capstone, she gives thoughtful consideration to how, as professionals and as individuals, we can move toward personal engagement with environmental problems.

• Asking Questions About Cultural Anthropology: A Concise Introduction
• The Environment in Anthropology (Second Edition): A Reader in Ecology, Culture, and Sustainable Living
• The Gebusi: Lives Transformed in a Rainforest World, Fourth Edition
• Planning Families in Nepal: Global and Local Projects of Reproduction
• Cultural Ecology
• Environmental Anthropology: A Historical Reader
• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (FSG Classics)
• Overheating: An Anthropology of Accelerated Change
• Introduction to Cultural Ecology
• Caring for Place: Ecology, Ideology, and Emotion in Traditional Landscape Management