Bush Base, Forest Farm :: Culture, Environment, and Development.

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 us...

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Main Author: Croll, Elisabeth
Other Authors: Parkin, David
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2002.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary: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 understandin.
Physical Description:1 online resource (276 pages)
ISBN:0415066573
9780415066570
0415066565
9780415066563
0203036123
9780203036129

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