ANTHRO 1620: Anthropology 1620

Environment and Environmentalism: Anthropological Perspectives: Conference Course

Pauline E. Peters (Kennedy School)

An anthropological exploration of current debates on environment and environmentalism. Through readings on a range of countries and peoples, considers the following themes: the ways in which different groups in different times and places produce cultural constructions of nature, landscape, wilderness, and environment; contestations over the use, knowledge, and meanings of natural resources; movements between the culturalization of nature and the naturalization of culture; environmentalism as discourse; environmental social movements and cults; landscape as commodity.