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.
Author(s): Elisabeth Croll, David Parkin
Year: 1992
Language: English
Pages: 288
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of figures and tables......Page 8
List of contributors......Page 9
Preface......Page 11
Anthropology, the environment and development Elisabeth Croll and David Parkin......Page 16
Cultural understandings of the environment Elisabeth Croll and David Parkin......Page 24
Culture and the perception of the environment Tim Ingold......Page 52
The Dogon and their trees Walter E.A.van Beek and Pieteke M.Banga......Page 70
Women's crops in women's spaces: Gender relations in Mende rice farming Melissa Leach......Page 89
Ideas and usage: Environment in Aouan society, Ivory Coast Jan P.M.van den Breemer......Page 110
Ritual topography and ecological use: The Gabbra of the Kenyan/Ethiopian borderlands Gnther Schlee......Page 123
People's participation in environmental projects Carol A.Drijver......Page 144
Intolerable environments: Towards a cultural reading of agrarian practice and policy in Rwanda Johan Pottier and August in Nkundabashaka......Page 159
Cows eat grass don't they? Evaluating conflict over pastoral management in Zimmbabwe Michael Drinkwater......Page 182
From sago to rice: Changes in cultivation in Siberut, Indonesia Gerard Persoon......Page 200
'Nature', 'culture' and disasters: Floods and gender in Bangladesh Rosalind Shaw......Page 213
'Arctic ethno-ecology': Environmentalist debates in the Soviet North Igor Krupnik......Page 231
Landscape and self-determination among the Eveny: The political environment of Siberian reindeer herders today Piers Vitebsky......Page 236
Name index......Page 260
Subject index......Page 264
