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  • Everyone Eats

    Understanding Food and Culture

    An illuminating anthropological study of the ways that cultures and political systems structure the edible environment.Everyone eats, but rarely do we investigate why we eat what we eat. Why do we love spices, sweets, coffee? How did rice become such a staple food throughout so much of eastern Asia? Everyone Eats examines the social and cultural reasons for our food choices and provides an ... Read more

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  • Sustaining Social Conflict

    Hatred, Money, and Genocide

    This book examines the origins of genocide and mass murder in the everyday conflicts of ordinary people, exacerbated by special interests. We examine cases harming people simply because they are considered unworthy and undeserving—for instance, if they are dehumanized. We confine our attention to genocide, mass murder, large-scale killing motivated by hate or desire for gain, and fascism as an ... Read more

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  • The Pursuit of Ecotopia

    Lessons from Indigenous and Traditional Societies for the Human Ecology of Our Modern World

    The world environmental and social justice crises brought on by our high-throughput global economy can be ameliorated only if we adapt the pragmatic ethics of social cohesion in traditional societies to the modern world.Traditional societies have much to teach the modern world about conservation and environmental management. The Pursuit of Ecotopia: Lessons from Indigenous and Traditional ... Read more

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  • Caring for Place

    Ecology, Ideology, and Emotion in Traditional Landscape Management

    by E N Anderson ...
    How can cultural forms motivate people to care about their environment? While important scientific data about ecosystems is mushrooming, E. N. Anderson argues in this powerful new book that putting effective conservation into practice depends primarily on social solidarity and emotional factors. Marshaling decades of research on cultures across several continents, he shows how societies have been ... Read more

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  • Complying with Genocide

    The Wolf You Feed

    Drawing on a powerful Native American metaphor to frame this work, E.N. Anderson and Barbara Anderson examine complicity in genocide, stressing that it only through feeding the good wolf that a moral and social order of inclusion and tolerance can be built, while feeding the bad wolf will result in fear, hatred, exclusion, and violence. In Complying with Genocide: The Wolf You Feed, Anderson and ... Read more

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  • Respect and Responsibility in Pacific Coast Indigenous Nations

    The World Raven Makes

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book examines ways of conserving, managing, and interacting with plant and animal resources by Native American cultural groups of the Pacific Coast of North America, from Alaska to California. These practices helped them maintain and restore ecological balance for thousands of years. Building upon the authors’ and others’ previous works, the book brings in perspectives from ethnography and ... Read more

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  • The Origins of Prejudice

    Dangerous Opinions and Beliefs

    Series Book 3 - Explanations in the Social Sciences
    Being prejudiced is usually taken to mean having hasty and poorly founded feelings and opinions, usually negative, that are based on too little real knowledge and careful consideration. Definitions, however, are not explanations. The Origins of Prejudice is a short and unconventional book that shows you step-by-step both how and why all of us who are human often rely uncritically on what we ... Read more

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  • Food and Environment in Early and Medieval China

    Series series Encounters with Asia
    Chinese food is one of the most recognizable and widely consumed cuisines in the world. Almost no town on earth is without a Chinese restaurant of some kind, and Chinese canned, frozen, and preserved foods are available in shops from Nairobi to Quito. But the particulars of Chinese cuisine vary widely from place to place as its major ingredients and techniques have been adapted to local ... Read more

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  • Food and Environment in Early and Medieval China

    Series series Encounters with Asia
    Chinese food is one of the most recognizable and widely consumed cuisines in the world. Almost no town on earth is without a Chinese restaurant of some kind, and Chinese canned, frozen, and preserved foods are available in shops from Nairobi to Quito. But the particulars of Chinese cuisine vary widely from place to place as its major ingredients and techniques have been adapted to local ... Read more

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  • Our Traumatized Planet

    A Stark Perspective on the Earth’s Environmental Crises

    Our Traumatized Planet explores the state of the environment and some of the major issues faced today and asks what we can learn and apply from contemporary traditional peoples, ancient societies, and our own successes and failures.Providing straightforward information on some of the serious environmental issues we face so that non-scientists can understand them, this book explores what is at ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Introduction to Cultural Ecology

    A newer edition of this book is available for ordering at the following web address: https://www.bloomsbury.com/introduction-to-cultural-ecology-9780759123298/Introduction to Cultural Ecology provides a comprehensive discussion of the history and theoretical foundations of cultural ecology, featuring nine case studies from around the world. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Introduction to Cultural Ecology

    All peoples and cultures face environmental issues—but as this accessible text shows, how they respond to such issues varies widely around the world and across human history. Introduction to Cultural Ecology, Third Edition, familiarizes students with the foundations of the field and provides a framework for exploring what other cultures can teach us about human/environment relationships.Drawing on ... Read more

    $60.79 USD