Bush Base: Forest Farm: Culture, Environment and Development (European Inter-University Development Opportunities Study Group)

Parkin David Croll Elisabeth

ISBN 10: 0415066573 / ISBN 13: 9780415066570

Published by Taylor & Francis Group, 1992

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pp. 280.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Bush Base: Forest Farm: Culture, Environment and Development (European Inter-University Development Opportunities Study Group)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415066573
• ISBN 13: 9780415066570
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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