Carole L. Crumley has brought together top scholars from across anthropology in a benchmark volume that displays the range of exciting new work on the complex relationship between humans and the environment. Continually pursuing anthropology's persistent claim that both the physical and the mental world matter, these environmental scholars proceed from the holistic assumption that the physical world and human societies are always inextricably linked. As they incorporate diverse forms of knowledge, their work reaches beyond anthropology to bridge the sciences, social sciences, and the humanities, and to forge working relationships with non-academic communities and professionals. Theoretical issues such as the cultural dimensions of context, knowledge, and power are articulated alongside practical discussions of building partnerships, research methods and ethics, and strategies for implementing policy. New Directions in Environment and Anthropology will be important for all scholars and non-academics interested in the relation between our species and its biotic and built environments. It is also designed for classroom use in and beyond anthropology, and students will be greatly assisted by suggested reading lists for their further exploration of general concepts and specific research. Learn more about the author at the University of North Carolina Anthropology Department web pages.

IntroductionPart One: Defining Environment and Interpreting NatureChapter 1: Nature in the MakingChapter 2: Linking Language and the Environment: A Coevolutionary PerspectiveChapter 3: Cognitive Anthropology and the EnvironmentChapter 4: Archaeology and Environmental ChangeChapter 5: Interdisciplinary Borrowing in Environmental Anthropology, and the Critique of Modern SciencePart Two: Beliefs, Values and Environmental JusticeChapter 6: Political Ecology and Constructions of Environment in Biological AnthropologyChapter 7: Anthropology and Environmental Justice: Analysts, Activists, Mediators, and Trouble MakersChapter 8: The Politics of Ethnographic Presence: Sites and Topologies in the Study of Transnational MovementsChapter 9: Do Anthropologists Need Religion and Vice Versa: Adventures and Dangers in Spiritual EcologyPart Three: Application and EngagementChapter 10: Historical Ecology: Landscapes of Change in the Pacific NorthwestChapter 11: Getting the Dirt Out: An Anthropological Approach to the Culture and Political Economy of Urban Land in the United StatesChapter 12: Environmental Anthropology at Sea>