From: Environment | Date: January 1, 1995| Author: | COPYRIGHT 1995 Heldref Publications. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The result of the 1992 Conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists, this book challenges the view that the resolution of environmental issues is primarily the province of natural science and argues that anthropology, too, has a distinctive contribution to make. The 15 papers in this edited volume include interesting site-specific reports from Toronto, the Papua New Guinea highlands, and rural Ireland, as well as from American shell fishermen, the Nuaulu in Seram, Indonesia, and the Mende in Sierra Leone. Some of the more synthetic papers are of even greater interest than ...