Ethnographies of Conservation

David G. Anderson is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen.

• Introduction: Towards an Ethnography of Ecological UnderprivilegeE. Berglund and D. AndersonChapter 1. Nature as Contested Terrai: Conflicts over Wilderness Protection and Local Livelihoods in Rio San Juan, NicaraguaA. NygrenChapter 2. Pitfalls of Synchronicity: A Case Study of the Caiçaras in the Atlantic Rainforest of South-eastern BrazilC. AdamsChapter 3. The Environment at the Periphery: Conflicting Discourses on the Forest in Tanimbar, Eastern IndonesiaN. Frost and R. WranghamChapter 4. Protest, Conflict and Litigation: Dissent or Libel in Resistance to a Conservancy in North-West NamibiaS. SullivanChapter 5. Environmentalism in the Syrian Badia: The Assumptions of Degradation, Protection and Bedouin MisuseD. ChattyChapter 6. "Ecocide and Genocide": Explorations of Environmental Justice in Lakota Sioux CountryB. HalderChapter 7. Promoting Consumption in the Rainforest: Global Conservation in Papua New GuineaD. EllisChapter 8. "We still are Soviet People": Youth Ecological Culture in the Republic of Tatarstan and the Legacy of the Soviet UnionL. RolleChapter 9. The Ecology of Markets in Central SiberiaD. AndersonChapter 10. Contrasting Landscapes, Conflicting Ontologies: Assessing Environmental Conservation on Palawan Island, The PhilippinesD. NovellinoChapter 11. Ecologism as an Idiom in Amazonian AnthropologyS. NugentNotes on ContributorsBibliographyIndex

"This is an excellent collection of articles…All are clearly written and any of them could be used in undergraduate teaching. Moreover, the range of case studies is impressively global…The articles all exhibit a good capacity to provoke…The result is an enjoyable book that is likely to be useful to teachers, students and practitioners of environmentalism."Anthropological Forum