Syllabus/achievement requirements

SOSANT2510 Environmental Anthropology

Required books can be purchased from online bookstore such as amazon.com 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.

@ Kalland, A. & F. Sejersen: Marine Mammals and Northern Cultures, 2005. Edmonton: Canadian Circumpolar Institute Press. 349 pages.

Articles in readers / kompendium

Conklin, Beth A. and Laura R. Graham:: "The Shifting Middle Ground: Amazonian Indians and Eco-Politics" in American Anthropologist, Vol 97 (4), 2000. Pages 695-710 (16 pages).

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).

Douglas, Mary & Aaron Wildavsky: "Risks are hidden" in Douglas, Mary & Aaron Wildavsky: Risk and culture. An essay on the Selection of Technological and Environmental Dangers, 1983. Berkeley: University of California Press. Pages 16-28, 200-201.

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).

Hardin, Garrett: "The tragedy of the Commons" in Science, Vol. 162, 1968. Pages 6-20 (14 sider).

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).

Okely, Judith: "Visualism and Landscape: Looking and Seeing in Normandy" in Etnos, Vol. 66, No. 1, 2001. Pages 99-120 (22 pages).

Pedersen, Poul : "Nature, religion and cultural identity: The religious environmentalist paradigm" in Bruun, O. and A. Kalland (eds.): Asian Perception of Nature: A Critical Approach, 1995. London: Curzon Press. Pages 258-276. (19 pages).

White, Lynn, jr: "The historical roots of our ecological crisis" in Science, Vol. 155, No. 3767, 1967. Pages 1203-1207 (6 pages).

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