商品簡介
This collection of ten essays presents case studies where religious and scientific views about nature and humans relationships with it over-lap and interact. Each essay looks at how people from around the world and in different social contexts imagine and deal with ecological problems. The essays are ethnographic and rely on participant observation, interviews, surveys, and archival research. Most of the essays look at indigenous people in North and South America, but some also refer to Japan, Papua New Guinea and Zimbabwe. The ecological problems are entangled in questions of the social power to face them and the imagination to see solutions and more sustainable futures. The contributors are anthropologists and academics with backgrounds in theology, political science, and environmental studies. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
