Books
Evernden, Neil: The Social Creation of Nature, 1992. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Gottlieb, Robert: Forcing the Spring: The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement, 1995. Island Press. (Selected chapter/ chapters may also be photocopied at SUM).
Witoszek, Nina and Andrew Brennan: Philosophical Dialogues: Arne Næss and the Progress of Ecophilosophy, 1999. Rowman & Littlefield. Chapter 40 (Ramachandra), ch. 41 (Arne Næss), ch. 42 (Stephan Harding), ch. 53 (Nina Witoszek), ch. 54 (Arne Næss) and postscript (Ramachandra Guha) are required readings..
Compendium:
Croll, Elisabeth and David Parkin: "Cultural Underpinnings of the Environment", ch.2 in Croll & Parkin:: Bush Base, Forest Farm: Culture, Environment and Development, 1992. Routledge.
Ingold, Tim: "Culture and the Perception of the Environment", ch.3 in Croll & Parkin (ed.),: Bush Base, Forest Farm: Culture, Environment and Development, 1992. Routledge.
Douglas, Mary: "Environment at Risk", ch. 15 in Douglas (ed.),: Implicit Meanings. Essays in Anthropology, 1975. Routledge and Kegan Paul.
Schama, Simon: "Blood in the Forest", pp. 81-100 and 584-585 in : Landscape and Memory, 1995. Harper Collins Publisher.
Schulz, Christian Nordberg: "Place", pp. 6-48 and 203-204 in : Genius Loci. Towards a phenomenology of architecture., 1984. Rizzolo.
Bauman, Zygmunt: "Culture as Praxis", pp. 1-57 and 179-183 in : Culture as Praxis, 1973. Culture as Praxis.
Witoszek, Nina: "The Unromantic Romantics", pp. 209-227 in M. Teich and Roy Porter: Nature and Society in Historical Context. 1997. Cambridge University Press.
Passed out:
Arce, Alberto and Long, Norman: "Reconfiguring modernity and anthropology from an anthropological perspective", ch 1 in Arce A. and Long, N.: _Anthropology, Development and Modernities. Exploring discourses, counter tendencies and violence. London: Routledge 2001.
Bell, Daniel: "Technology, Nature and Society", pp. 1-33 in The Winding Passage: Sociological Essays and Journeys. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1999
Bell, Daniel: "The Disjunction of Realms", pp. 3-35 in The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism. Basic Books, 1996.
Crewe, Emma: "The silent traditions of developing cooks", ch 3 in Grillo, R.D. and Stirrat, R.L. Discourses of development: Anthropological perspectives. Oxford, UK: Berg 1997.
Croll and Parkin: "Anthropology, the environment and development", ch 1 in E. Croll and D. Parkin, Bush Base, Forest Farm: Culture, Environment and Development. London: Routledge, 1992.
Winther, Tanja: "Conclusion: Illuminated experiences", ch 11 in Current styles: Introducing electricity in a Zanzibari village, Thesis submitted for the fulfillment of the degree Dr.Polit, Social Anthropology, University of Oslo 2005.
Material available on internet:
White, Lynn Jr.: "The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis", pp. 1203-1207 in: Science, 155, 1967. http://www.zbi.ee/~kalevi/lwhite.htm.
Huntington, Samuel: "The Clash of Civilizations", pp.-22-28 in: Foreign Affairs, 72, 1993. http://www.alamut.com/subj/economics/misc/clash.html.
Optional non-fiction:
Cronon, William: Uncommon Ground: Toward Reinventing Nature, 1995. Norton.
Ferguson, James: "The Copperbelt in theory", ch 1 in Expectations of modernity. Myths and meanings of urban life on the Zambian Copperbelt. Berkely: University of California Press, 1999.
Herz, Noreena: The Silent Takeover. Global Capitalism and the Death of Democracy, 2003. Harper.
Film: The Blade Runner (1982)