Description: - What makes people care about the environment? - Why and how do different cultural groups value land in different ways? With increasing international concern about green issues, and the apparent failure of mechanistic solutions to complex problems, Un
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"I find her timely study very important grounding work in analysing and understanding relationships to land." --Canberra Anthropology
"An absorbing account of the ways in which Aboriginal people and White pastoralists living in the lowlands east of northern Australia's Gulf of Carpentaria symbolically construct their surroundings.. . . A solid, informative, and creative ethnography. The language is clear and accessible, and Strang excels at making detail engrossing rather than burdensome. Because of its subjects and its many good qualities this is a book that should interest a wide audience." --American Anthropologist