1st Edition

Bush Base, Forest Farm Culture, Environment, and Development

Edited By Elisabeth Croll, David Parkin Copyright 1992
    276 Pages
    by Routledge

    288 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    List of figures and tables, List of contributors, Preface, Part I Bush base: forest farm, Part II Ecocosmologies, Part III Changing to order, Name index, Subject index

    Biography

    Elisabeth Croll and David Parkin are members of the Department of Anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.