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4e de couv.: What does environment really mean in the complex, non-Western milieu of present-day Tokyo? How can anthropology offer a corrective to the ingrained biases, global orientation, and quantitative measures found in some environmental studies? Author Peter Wynn Kirby exp…
The author looks at two Tokyo neighborhoods, comparing environmental consciousness and conduct in communities facing specific toxic threats (real or perceived). In each fieldsite, the tension between lofty rhetoric and daily practices helps highlight the practical ambivalence of…
This work casts an anthropological lens over two Tokyo neighbourhoods, comparing environmental consciousness and conduct in communities facing specific toxic threats (real or perceived). In each field-site, the tension between lofty rhetoric and daily practices helps highlight t…
"As formidable instruments of war, they have changed the destinies of empires. As marauding crop-raiders, the are despised. As an endangered species, they are cherished. Numerous and often contrasting are the ways in which elephants have been regarded by humans across millennia.…
We exist at a moment during which the entangled challenges facing the human and natural worlds confront us at every turn, whether at the most basic level of survival--health, sustenance, shelter--or in relation to our comfort-driven desires. As demand for resources both necessar…
We exist at a moment during which the entangled challenges facing the human and natural worlds confront us at every turn, whether at the most basic level of survival--health, sustenance, shelter--or in relation to our comfort-driven desires. As demand for resources both necessar…