Books
Evernden, Neil: The Social Creation of Nature, 1992. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
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..
Fischer, Frank and Hajer, Maarten A: Living with Nature : Environmental Politics as Cultural Discourse , 1999. New York : Oxford University Press.
Compendium:
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.
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.
Gottlieb, Robert: “Introduction. Where we live, work, and play”, pp. 31-40 in Gottlieb, Robert: Forcing the Spring: The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement, 1995. Island Press.
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.
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.
Witoszek, Nina: "The Unromantic Romantics", pp. 209-227 in M. Teich and Roy Porter: Nature and Society in Historical Context. 1997. Cambridge University Press.
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)