▪ Abstract With the concept of environment as its organizing motif, this review focuses on two
general fields of anthropological environmental research: ecological anthropology and the …

How have human cultures engaged with and thought about animals, plants, rocks, clouds,
and other elements in their natural surroundings? Do animals and other natural objects …

Nature and Society looks critically at the nature/society dichotomy and its place in human
ecology and social theory. Rethinking the dualism means rethinking ecological …

“Soul Hunters combines intimate ethnographic knowledge of Yukaghir hunting practices
with sophisticated phenomenological analysis and an impressive comparative range. The …

Bringing together a wealth of research in social and cultural anthropology, philosophy and
related fields, this is the first book to address the contribution that an understanding of …

The Neolithic period, when agriculture began and many monuments-including Stonehenge-
were constructed, is an era fraught with paradoxes and ambiguities. Starting in the …

Bodies intrigue us. They promise windows into the past that other archaeological finds
cannot by bringing us literally face to face with history. Yet'the body'is also highly contested …

As the full effects of human activity on Earth's life-support systems are revealed by science,
the question of whether we can change, fundamentally, our relationship with nature …

The last decade has seen a dramatic increase in the attention paid by social scientists to
environmental issues, and a gradual acknowledgement, in the wider community, of the role …

In modern society, we tend to have faith in technology. But is our concept of 'technology'itself
a cultural illusion? This book challenges the idea that humanity as a whole is united in a …