Written from a critical perspective, these essays question many of the assumptions about nature and local peoples made by members of ecological and environmenta

This book examines theories and ethnographies related to the anthropology of power in conservation. Conservation thought and practice is power laden--conservati

Anthropologists know that conservation often disempowers already under-privileged groups, and that it also fails to protect environments. Through a series of et

Although modernity’s understanding of nature and culture has now been superseded by that of environmentalism, the power to define the meaning of both, and hen

Drawing on ethnographic inquiry and the anthropological literature on doubt and atheism, this volume explores people's reluctance to pursue religion. The contri