This book illustrates the ways in which today's environmental anthropologists are constructing new paradigms for understanding the multiplicity of players, pressures, and ecologies in every environment, and the value of cultural knowledge of landscapes.
This book illustrates the ways in which today's environmental anthropologists are constructing new paradigms for understanding the multiplicity of players, pressures, and ecologies in every environment, and the value of cultural knowledge of landscapes.
The Handbook provides a comprehensive survey of contemporary topics in environmental anthropology and thorough discussions on the current state and prospective future of the field in seven key sections. As the contributions to this Handbook demonstrate, the subfield of environmental anthropology is responding to cultural adaptations and responses to environmental changes in multiple and complex ways. As a discipline concerned primarily with human-environment interaction, environmental anthropologists recognize that we are now working within a pressure cooker of rapid environmental damage that is forcing behavioural and often cultural changes around the world. As we see in the breadth of topics presented in this volume, these environmental challenges have inspired renewed foci on traditional topics such as food procurement, ethnobiology, and spiritual ecology; and a broad new range of subjects, such as resilience, nonhuman rights, architectural anthropology, industrialism, and education. The second edition includes greater coverage of topics that have grown increasingly pertinent not only to the field of environmental anthropology, but to peoples, places, and species around the world since the publication of the original volume. To this end, the new edition includes chapters dedicated to illustrating the role of environmental anthropologists in the struggle for environmental justice and elucidating instances of environmental racism, climate change, the effects of the global pandemic, and much more.
This comprehensive, holistically oriented second edition is an ideal resource to not only inform students and scholars on the history and challenges of environmental anthropology today, but to prepare them to apply the anthropological skill set to address challenges of justice, health, conservation, and wellbeing in a climate changed world.
Section One: Environmental Anthropology: A Brief History
1. Introduction
by Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet, Jessie Fredlund, and Helen Kopnina
2. History and
Scope of Environmental Anthropology by Eduardo Brondizio, Ryan Adams, and
Stefano Fiorini
3. Environmental Anthropology: An Experimental History by
Leslie Sponsel
4. Ethnobiology and the New Environmental Anthropology by
Eugene Anderson
5. Puerto Rican Environmental Anthropology: A Brief Overview
by Carlos G. García Quijano and Hilda Lloréns Section Two: Ways of Knowing:
Theory and Theoretical Debates in Environmental Anthropology
6. Historical
Ecology: Agency in Human-Environment Interaction by Lauren Dodaro and Dustin
Reuther
7. The Guitar and the Tree: On Environmental Anthropology and
Enviromateriality by José E. Martínez-Reyes
8. Whats Ontology Got to Do with
it? On the Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge in Environmental
Anthropology by Sian Sullivan
9. Excavating Environmental Anthropologys
Challenging Foundations by David W Kidner Section Three: Ways of Knowing and
Learning: Methods and Emerging Approaches in Environmental Anthropology
10.
All Our Relationships: Settler Translations of Indigenous Relations with
Plants by Rob Efird
11. Drawing Insights about Place: Spatial Representations
of the Environment in Hawai`i by Bryan Wee, Benjamin Crawford, Amy DePierre
12. Towards a Methodological Framework in Architectural Anthropology for
Indigenous Wellbeing by Angela Kreutz, Paul Memmott and Jenine
Godwin-Thompson
13. Spiritual Ecology, Sacred Places, and Biodiversity
Conservation by Leslie Sponsel14. Cognition and Cultural Modeling:
Understanding the World around Us and Each Other by Kimberly Kirner Section
Four: Environment and the Climate Crisis
15. Taking Responsibility for
Climate Change: On Sustainable Consumption and Neoliberal Environmental
Governance by Cynthia Isenhour, Brieanne Berry, Erin Victor, and Chyanne
Yoder
16. On Dying Glaciers: Losing Ice and Finding a Response by Cymene Howe
17. Subsurface Convergence Zones and the Net-Zero Future: Routing a carbon
dioxide emissions pipeline by Mark Nuttall
18. Disasters and their Impact: A
Fundamental Feature of Environment by Susanna M. Hoffman
19. Indigenous
Australians and Climate Change: Impacts, Indigenous voices, and the Need for
a Collaborative Radical Response by Hans A. Baer
20. Grounding the Sky:
Embodied Health and Expert Knowledge during Climate Crisis by Evan A. Singer,
Manon Lefèvre, and Michael R. Dove. Section Five: Environmental Justice
21.
Critical Environmental Justice: Anthropological Extensions by Sydney
Giacalone and Myles Lennon
22. Engaging with Disaster: The Critical
Contributions of Environmental Anthropologists and Ethnographic Data
Collection in Disaster Risk Reduction and Preparedness-Equity by Eleanor
Shoreman-Ouimet
23. The Puerto Rican Local Food Movement: Transformation
After Disaster by Ryan Adams
24. Elite Pollution, Environmental Justice, and
the making of Environmental Health by Merrill Singer
25. Refining
Relationships: How an Unlikely CommunityScientist Partnership Led to a
Historic Environmental Justice Victory by Nicholas Shapiro, Jackie James, Liz
Barry, Shaun Crawford, Jennifer Pusatier, Adele Henderson, Timothy Logsdon,
Joyce Hogenkamp, and Tom Gentile Section Six: Environmental Ethics and
Conservation
26. Authenticity as Indigenous Modernity in Namibian Ecotourism:
Two Contradictions of Haiom and Xung Development under Neoliberal
Capitalism by Stasja Koot
7. A Perfect Fit for the Indigenous Slot? Batwa
Identity Politics Meets Global Advocacy Agendas in Kahuzi-Biega National Park
by Fergus OLeary Simpson, Lionel Bisimwa Matabaro, and Vedaste Cituli
Alinirihu
28. Settler Ecologies and their Decolonization: Three En-Visions of
Ecological Futures by Irus Braverman
29. Demilitarizing the Environment: Fire
Suppression, Counterinsurgency, and Karuk Cultural Perpetuation by Bruno
Seraphin and Leaf Hillman Section Seven: Beyond Human: Multispecies
Ethnography, Ecological Justice, and Making Space for More-than-Human
Perspectives.
30. Digitized and Datafied Wildlife: Environmental Anthropology
and Technology by Emily Wanderer
31. The Anthropology of Plants: Toward a
Botany Otherwise by Colin Hoag
32. Rights of Nature: A Critical Dialogue
between Law and Environmental Anthropology by Dirk Hanschel and Annette
Mehlhorn
33. Justice for All: Inconvenient Truths and Reconciliation in
Human-Non-Numan Relations by Veronica Strang
Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Connecticut (UConn), USA, and the Associate Director of UConns Institute of Environment and Energy.
Jessie Fredlund is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York (SUNY), New Paltz, USA.
Helen Kopnina (PhD, Cambridge University, 2002) coordinates the Sustainable Business program at Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK.
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