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The Ecological Transition - Cultural Anthropology and Human Adaptation (Hardcover)
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The Ecological Transition - Cultural Anthropology and Human Adaptation (Hardcover)
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Written during the height of the ecology movement, The Ecological
Transition is a stunning interdisciplinary work. It combines
anthropology, ecology, and sociology to formulate an understanding
of cultural-environmental relationships. While anthropologists have
been studying relationships between humans and the physical
environment for a very long time, only in the last thirty years
have questions inherent in these relationships broadened beyond
description and classification. For example, the concept of
environment has been extended beyond the physical into the social.
Although anthropologists have adopted many of the concepts that
Bennett develops in the book, he also feels that the central issues
have never been addressed, either by anthropologists or by people
in related disciplines. The most important of these, in Bennett's
opinion, is the failure to incorporate a respect for the
environmental in contemporary culture, which would allow making
exceptions in certain human practices in order to protect the
environment. His point in The Ecological Transition is that a basic
cultural change in modern civilization is necessary to achieve this
end. Both a theoretical and a practical work, The Ecological
Transition emphasizes the relationships between human culture, the
physical environment, technology, and social policy. The Ecological
Transition is a challenging volume that makes us face the
consequences of human behavior in the modern world: its effect on
pollution, natural resources, agriculture, the economy, and
population, to name just a few areas. The book remains a
significant contribution to the discourse on social, economic, and
environmental problems. While the book was first published in 1976,
it still reads as a contemporary tract.
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