Syllabus/achievement requirements autumn 2014

SOSANT2510 Environmental Anthropology

Required books can be purchased from online bookstore such as amazon.co.uk and Abebooks.com. Required books are also available at the bookstore Akademika and the University Library.

Articles in readers are available at the "kopiutsalg"-desk, groundfloor Akademika. Remember to bring your semester-card.

Required books

@ Dove, Michael & Carol Carpenter (eds.): Environmental Anthropology: A Historical Reader, 2008. Oxford: Blackwell. Paperback 502 pages.

@ Hughes, David McDermott: Whiteness in Zimbabwe, race, landscape and the problem of belonging. 2010, Palgrave Macmillan. Paperback 224 pages.

@ Willerslev, Rane: Soul hunters: hunting, animism, and personhood among the Siberian Yukaghirs. 2007. University of California Press, Paperback 235 pages.

Articles in readers / compendium

Crate, Susan A.: "Gone the Bull of Winter? Grappling with the Cultural Implications of and Anthropology’s Role(s) in Global Climate Change" in Current Anthropology, Vol. 49, No. 4, 2008. 569-595 (27 pages).

Feeny, David, Fikret Berkes, Bonnie J. McCay & James M. Acheson: "The tragedy of the commons: Twenty-two years later" in Human Ecology, Vol. 18, No. 1, 1990. Pages 1-19 (19 pages).

Nuttall, Mark: "Living in a world of movement: Human resilience to environmental instability in Greenland" in Crate, Susan A. & Mark Nuttall (eds.): Anthropology and Climate Change: From Encounters to Actions, 2009. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press. Pages 292-310 (19 pages).

Online articles

Conklin, Beth A. and Laura R. Graham (1995): “The Shifting Middle Ground: Amazonian Indians and Eco-Politics”, American Anthropologist 97(4):695-710 (16 pages). 

Hardin, Garrett (1968): "The tragedy of the Commons", Science, 162 (3859). Pages 1243-1248 (6 pages). 

Ingold, Tim (2011): “The shape of the earth”, in Tim Ingold (ed.): Being Alive: essays on movement, knowledge and description. London: Routledge. Pages 99-115 (16 pages). 

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