Environmental Anthropology

Anthropology, Ecology and Environments: an Introduction 8 Why Environmental Anthropology? 8 What Does This Book Offer? 10 Part I Roots 13 1 Cultural Ecology 14 Humans and Environments in Early 20th Century Anthropology 14 What Is Cultural Ecology? 15 Comparative Accounts of Foraging Societies. 19 The Emergence of Ancient Civilisations 21 Cultural Ecology in Modern Complex Societies 23 Alternative Roots of Environmental Anthropology 24 2 Multiple Ecologies 29 From the 1960s: Multiplying Approaches 29 Cultural Materialism 29 Ecological Anthropology 32 Symbolic and Linguistic Ecology 37 Into the 1990s: The New Ecologies 38 Political Ecology 38 Environmental History and Historical Ecology 41 Research into Coupled Human-Environment Systems 44 Local Knowledge . 45 Part II Approaches 51 3 Landscapes 52 A Stroll through the Eifel 52 Landscapes for Transdisciplinary Anthropology 54 Natural and Cultural Landscapes 54 A Very Short History of Landscape 57 Temporal Landscapes 59 Contested Landscapes 62 4 Infrastructures. 67 Of Fences, Waterholes and Wildlife Corridors 67 Infrastructure - Approaches, Definitions, Challenges 68 Environmental Infrastructure 73 Multispecies Infrastructure 74 5 Anthropocenes 79 The Anthropocene: Why, What and When?. 79 Anthropological Engagements with the Anthropocene Concept 84 Responsibility in a Patchy Anthropocene 90 6 Ontologies 95 Tirakuna 95 Anthropology and Ontology 96 Beyond the One-World World 96 How Many Worlds Are There? 101 Ontological Politics 103 Part III Foci 109 7 Water 110 Water Wars? 110 Water and Anthropology 111 Social Waters 112 Managing Waters 117 Meaningful Waters 120 8 Plants and Fungi 128 Lawn Culture 128 Planthropology 129 Knowing and Using Plants and Fungi 129 The Politics of Travelling Plants 132 Relating with and through Plants and Fungi 135 Growing Plants and People 139 9 Animals 147 A Self-sacrificing Animal 147 Animals as Sustenance 148 Animals as Symbols and Knowledge 154 The Animal Turn and Multispecies Anthropology

Prof. Dr. Michael Bollig ist Professor der Ethnologie an der Universität zu Köln.