Volume 8 • Issue 1 • 2001

Articles


Where My Cord is Buried: WoDaaBe Use and Conceptualization of Land

Kristín Loftsdóttir

2001-12-01 Volume 8 • Issue 1 • 2001 • 1-24

Limits of Environmental Understanding: Action and Constraint

James G. Carrier

2001-12-01 Volume 8 • Issue 1 • 2001 • 25-44

Voices of a Natural Prison: Tourism Development and Fisheries Management among the Political Ghosts of Pisagua, Chile

Sarah Keene Meltzoff, Michael Lemons and Yair G. Lichtensztajn

2001-12-01 Volume 8 • Issue 1 • 2001 • 46-80

Book Reviews


Environmentalism Unbound: Exploring New Pathways for Change. by Robert Gottlieb. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (2001). Reviewed by Christopher McGrory Klyza

Christopher McGrory Klyza

2001-12-01 Volume 8 • Issue 1 • 2001 • 1-3

Mao’s War Against Nature: Politics and the Environment in Revolutionary China, by Judith Shapiro, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2001). Reviewed by Gregory A. Ruf

Gregory A. Ruf

2001-12-01 Volume 8 • Issue 1 • 2001 • 4-10

Shady Practices: Agroforestry and Gender Politics in The Gambia, by Richard A. Schroeder. Berkeley: University of California Press (1999). Reviewed by Peter Hamilton

Peter Hamilton

2001-12-01 Volume 8 • Issue 1 • 2001 • 10-14

Environmentalism Unbound: Exploring New Pathways for Change. by Robert Gottlieb. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (2001). Reviewed by Christopher McGrory Klyza

Christopher McGrory Klyza

2001-12-01 Volume 8 • Issue 1 • 2001 • 14-16

Trees At Risk: Reclaiming an Urban Forest, by Evelyn Herwitz. Worcester, MA: Chandler House Press, Inc (2001). Reviewed by Brent Evans and Carolyn Chipman Evans

Brent Evans and Carolyn Chipman Evans

2001-12-01 Volume 8 • Issue 1 • 2001 • 17-18

Negotiating Nature: Culture, Power and Environmental Argument, Hornborg, A. and Gisli Palsson, eds. Lund, Sweden: Lund University Press (2000). Reviewed by Leif John Fosse

Leif John Fosse

2001-12-01 Volume 8 • Issue 1 • 2001 • 18-21

Social Change in Melanesia: Development and History, by Paul Sillitoe New York: Cambridge University Press (2000). Reviewed by Jerry Jacka

Jerry Jacka

2001-12-01 Volume 8 • Issue 1 • 2001 • 21-23

The Rise of the Agricultural Welfare State, Adam D. Sheingate. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press (2001). Reviewed by Andrew D. McNitt

Andrew D. McNitt

2001-12-01 Volume 8 • Issue 1 • 2001 • 23-24

Where We Live, Work and Play: The Environmental Justice Movement and the Struggle for a New Environmentalism, by Patrick Novotny. London: Praeger (2000). Reviewed by Diane-Michele Prindeville

Diane-Michele Prindeville

2001-12-01 Volume 8 • Issue 1 • 2001 • 26-27

Disputes and Arguments Amongst Nomads: A Caste Council in India, by Robert M. Hayden. New Delhi: Oxford University Press (1999). Reviewed by S. George Vincentnathan

S. George Vincentnathan

2001-12-01 Volume 8 • Issue 1 • 2001 • 29-32

Questioning Geopolitics: Political Projects in a Changing World System, Edited by Georgi M. Deruglian and Scott L. Greer. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers (2000). Reviewed by Douglas Keare

Douglas Keare

2001-12-01 Volume 8 • Issue 1 • 2001 • 32-34

People and Forests: Communities, Institutions, and Governance, edited by Clark C. Gibson, Margaret A. McKean, and Elinor Ostrom. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (2000). Reviewed by Stacy Rosenberg

Stacy Rosenberg

2001-12-01 Volume 8 • Issue 1 • 2001 • 34-35

Fluid Arguments: Five Centuries of Western Water Conflict, Char Miller, editor. Tucson: University of Arizona Press (2001). Reviewed by Staci J. Pratt

Staci J. Pratt

2001-12-01 Volume 8 • Issue 1 • 2001 • 35-37

Marketing Democracy: Power and Social Movements in Post-Dictatorship Chile, by Julia Paley. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, (2001). Reviewed by Edward Murphy

Edward Murphy

2001-12-01 Volume 8 • Issue 1 • 2001 • 37-39

Haugerud, Angelique, M. Priscilla Stone, and Peter D. Little, eds. Commodities and Globalization: Anthropological Perspectives. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers (2000). Reviewed by Eriberto P. Lozada Jr.

Eriberto P. Lozada, Jr.

2001-12-01 Volume 8 • Issue 1 • 2001 • 40-41

Migration Theory: Talking Across Disciplines. Edited by Caroline B. Brettell and James F. Hollifield. New York: Routledge (2000). Reviewed by Ellen Percy Kraly

Ellen Percy Kraly

2001-12-01 Volume 8 • Issue 1 • 2001 • 41-43

Indians, Merchants, and Markets: a Reinterpretation of the Repartimiento and SpanishIndian Economic Relations in Colonial Oaxaca, 1750-1821. By Jeremy Baskes. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press (2000). Reviewed by Jeffrey H. Cohen

Jeffrey H. Cohen

2001-12-01 Volume 8 • Issue 1 • 2001 • 43-45

Naming the Enemy: Anti-Corporate Movements Confront Globalization, by Amory Starr, London: Zed Books (2000). Reviewed by David Skidmore

David Skidmore

2001-12-01 Volume 8 • Issue 1 • 2001 • 45-49

A Logic of Expressive Choice, by Alexander A. Schuessler, Princeton: Princeton University Press (2000). Reviewed by Melinda A. Mueller

Melinda A. Mueller

2001-12-01 Volume 8 • Issue 1 • 2001 • 49-51

Kerala: The Development Experience. Reflections on Sustainability and Replicability. Edited by Govindan Parayil. London: Zed Books (2000). Reviewed by Norbert Dannhaeuser

Norbert Dannhaeuser

2001-12-01 Volume 8 • Issue 1 • 2001 • 51-54

Indigenous Mestizos: The Politics of Race and Culture in Cuzco, Peru, 1919-1991. by Marisol de la Cadena. Durham, NC: Duke University Press (2000). Reviewed by Sarah England

Sarah England

2001-12-01 Volume 8 • Issue 1 • 2001 • 55-56

Marx and the Postmodernism Debates: An Agenda for Critical Theory by Lorraine Y. Landry. London: Praeger Publishers (2000). Reviewed by Douglas J. Cremer

Douglas J. Cremer

2001-12-01 Volume 8 • Issue 1 • 2001 • 57-58

The Evolution of Inequality: War, State Survival, and Democracy in Comparative Perspective by Manus I. Midlarsky (1999), Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, xiv, 349 pp. Reviewed by Patricia Kachuk, Lecturer, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of British Columbia. Reply by Manus Midlarsky

Manus Midlarsky

2001-12-01 Volume 8 • Issue 1 • 2001 • 59-60

Smokestack Diplomacy: Cooperation and Conflict in East-West Environmental Politics, by Robert G. Darst. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press (2001). Reviewed by Barbara A. Cellarius

Barbara A. Cellarius

2001-12-01 Volume 8 • Issue 1 • 2001 • 60-63

Rainforest Exchanges: Industry and Community on an Amazonian Frontier, by William H. Fisher. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press (2000). Reviewed by Gay M. Biery-Hamilton

Gay M. Biery-Hamilton

2001-12-01 Volume 8 • Issue 1 • 2001 • 63-65

Democracy and Development in Mali. Edited by R. James Bingen, David Robinson, and John M. Staatz. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press (2000). Reviewed by Dolores Koenig

Dolores Koenig

2001-12-01 Volume 8 • Issue 1 • 2001 • 65-67

The Economic Evolution of American Health Care: From Marcus Welby to Managed Care by David D. Dranove. Princeton: Princeton University Press (2000). Reviewed by Merrill Eisenberg

Merrill Eisenberg

2001-12-01 Volume 8 • Issue 1 • 2001 • 67-69

The Baobab and the Mango Tree: Lessons About Development - African and Asian Contrasts. By Nicholas Thompson and Scott Thompson. London: Zed Books (2000). Reviewed by A. F. Robertson

A. F. Robertson

2001-12-01 Volume 8 • Issue 1 • 2001 • 70-73

Teetering on the Rim: Global Restructuring, Daily Life, and the Armed Retreat of the Bolivian State. By Lesley Gill. New York: Columbia University Press (2000). Reviewed by Robert Albro

Robert Albro

2001-12-01 Volume 8 • Issue 1 • 2001 • 73-75

Global Multiculturalism: Comparative Perspectives on Ethnicity, Race, and Nation, edited by Grant H. Cornwell and Eve Walsh Stoddard, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (2000). Reviewed by Frank J. Lechner

Frank J. Lechner

2001-12-01 Volume 8 • Issue 1 • 2001 • 75-77

On the Plaza: The Politics of Public Space and Culture. by Setha M. Low. Austin: University of Texas Press (2000). Reviewed by James N. Green

James N. Green

2001-12-01 Volume 8 • Issue 1 • 2001 • 77-78

Hardest Times: The Trauma of Long Term Unemployment. by Thomas J. Cottle. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers (2001). Reviewed by Paul Durrenberger

Paul Durrenberger

2001-12-01 Volume 8 • Issue 1 • 2001 • 78-79

Information Ecologies: Using Technology with Heart, by Bonnie A. Nardi and Vicki L. O’Day. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (1999). Reviewed by Chris Halaska

Chris Halaska

2001-12-01 Volume 8 • Issue 1 • 2001 • 80-82

Environmentalism: A Global History, by Ramachandra Guha. New York: Longman (2000). Reviewed by Kathryn Hochstetler

Kathryn Hochstetler

2001-12-01 Volume 8 • Issue 1 • 2001 • 82-84

Disaffected Democracies: What’s Troubling the Trilateral Countries, edited by Susan Pharr and Robert Putnam, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press (2000). Reviewed by David S. Meyer

David S. Meyer

2001-12-01 Volume 8 • Issue 1 • 2001 • 84-86

The Process of Business/Environmental Collaborations: Partnering for Sustainability, by Alissa J. Stern with Tim Hicks. Westport, CT: Quorum Books, (2000). Reviewed by Jill M. Purdy

Jill M. Purdy

2001-12-01 Volume 8 • Issue 1 • 2001 • 87-88

Connection on the Ice, by Patti H. Clayton. Philadelphia: Temple University Press (1998). Reviewed by Holmes Rolston III

Holmes Rolston III

2001-12-01 Volume 8 • Issue 1 • 2001 • 88-90

Agency, Democracy and Nature by Robert J. Brulle, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (2000). Reviewed by Kelly D. Alley

Kelly D. Alley

2001-12-01 Volume 8 • Issue 1 • 2001 • 90-92

Never at War: Why Democracies Will Not Fight One Another, by Spencer Weart, New Haven: Yale University Press (1998). Reviewed by Juliann Emmons Allison

Juliann Emmons Allison

2001-12-01 Volume 8 • Issue 1 • 2001 • 92-95

Worlds Apart: Why Poverty Persists in Rural America. By Cynthia M. Duncan. New Haven and London: Yale University Press (1999). Reviewed by William W. Dressler

William W. Dressler

2001-12-01 Volume 8 • Issue 1 • 2001 • 95-97

At the Interface: The Household and Beyond. Monographs in Economic Anthropology Series, No. 15. Edited by David B Small and Nicola Tannenbaum. Lanham, NY: University Press of America (1999). Reviewed by Michael P. Freedman

Michael P. Freedman

2001-12-01 Volume 8 • Issue 1 • 2001 • 97-99

Spirit Wars: Native North American Religions in the Age of Nation Building, by Ronald Niezen, London and Los Angeles: University of California Press (2000). Reviewed by Stephen Greymorning

Stephen Greymorning

2001-12-01 Volume 8 • Issue 1 • 2001 • 99-102

Global Ethnography: Forces, Connections, and Imaginations in a Postmodern World. By Michael Burawoy, Joseph Blum, Sheba George, Zauzaa Gill, Teresa Gowan, Lynne Haney, Maren Klawiter, Steven Lopez, Sean O’Riain, Mille Thayer, eds. Berkeley: University of California Press (2000). Reviewed by Mary E. Hancock

Mary E. Hancock

2001-12-01 Volume 8 • Issue 1 • 2001 • 102-104

Making Better Environmental Decisions: An Alternative to Risk Assessment by Mary O’Brien, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (published with Environmental Research Foundation), 2000. Reviewed by Branden B. Johnson

Branden B. Johnson

2001-12-01 Volume 8 • Issue 1 • 2001 • 105-109

Cultural Encounters with the Environment: Enduring and Evolving Geographic Themes. By Murphy, Alexander B. and Douglas L. Johnson, eds. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (2001). Reviewed by Michelle Rhodes

Michelle Rhodes

2001-12-01 Volume 8 • Issue 1 • 2001 • 109-111

Beneath the Surface: Critical Essays in the Philosophy of Deep Ecology. Edited by Eric Katz, Andrew Light, and David Rothenberg. Cambridge, MA & London, UK: The MIT Press (2000). Reviewed by J. Stan Rowe

J. Stan Rowe

2001-12-01 Volume 8 • Issue 1 • 2001 • 111-114

Domestic Sources of International Environmental Policy: Industry, Environmentalists, and U.S. Power, by Elizabeth DeSombre, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press (2000). Reviewed by Dimitris Stevis

Dimitris Stevis

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