Description: Cultural ecologist Gene Anderson has spent his life exploring the ways in which different groups of native peoples manage the environment. In this book, he mixes anthropology with ecology and psychology, traditional myth and folklore with informed discussions of conservative efforts in industrial society, to reveal a strikingly new approach to our current environmental crisis.
Review Quotes: "With his characteristic generosity and skilled analytic doggedness, Gene Anderson engages in a series of explorations in cultural ecology. Like a skilled therapist, he explores the conditions of reasonable and harmful human interactions with environments. He sensitively examines intersections of ecology with religion, cognition, and, especially, emotionality....One learns from the dragons in the hills, Northwest coast religious ecology, Webers disenchantment, and much more."--Lynn Thomas, Professor of Anthropology, Pomona College
"Here is another E. N. Anderson masterpiece--a carefully crafted, meticulously researched, and compellingly personal treatment of a topic so critically important to all humanity: Why do we treat our environment and its resources the way we do?... This book is a 'must' for any thoughtful reader concerned about the future of the earth. Biologists and ecologists, anthropologists, economists, political scientists, religious scholars--and most especially politicians and decision-makers of industrial societies--will find here a new way of thinking about humans and our place in the universe."--Nancy J. Turner, Professor of Environmental Studies, University of Victoria