Ethnographies of Conservation
Anderson, David G. / Berglund, Eeva![Ethnographies of Conservation](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/198/19824224/CHSBZCOP0319824224.jpg)
Anthropologists know that conservation often disempowers already under-privileged groups, and that it also fails to protect environments. Through a series of ethnographic studies, this book argues that the real problem is not the disappearance of "pristine nature" or even the land-use practices of uneducated people. Rather, what we know about culturally determined patterns of consumption, production and unequal distribution, suggests that crit...