Radical human ecology
Subtitle: intercultural and indigenous approaches
By: by Lewis Williams, Rose Roberts and Alastair McIntosh, [editors]
Publisher: Ashgate Pub. Company
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 433
ISBN-13: 9780754677680; 9780754695165
Subjects: Ecology; Indigenous peoples; Traditional ecological knowledge; Human ecology; Philosophy; Deep ecology
Description: Human ecology - the study and practice of relationships between the natural and the social environment - has gained prominence as scholars seek more effectively to engage with pressing global concerns. In the past seventy years most human ecology has skirted the fringes of geography, sociology and biology. This volume pioneers radical new directions. In particular, it explores the power of indigenous and traditional peoples' epistemologies both to critique and to complement insights from modernity and postmodernity.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.