ANTH 210

ANTH 210
Intro to Environmental Anthropology
Autumn 2006

Required texts (available at the University Bookstore, textbook section):

Borgerhoff Mulder, Monique and Peter Coppolillo (2005) Conservation:  Linking Ecology, Economics, and Culture.  Princeton, NJ: Princeton U. Press.

Diamond, Jared (1997) Guns, Germs, and Steel.  NY: W.W. Norton [any edition]

Other required readings (available through UW Library electronic reserve):

Berger, John (1979)  “The wind howls too,” “The value of money,” and “Historical afterword.”  From Pig Earth.  NY: Pantheon.

Berkes, Fikret (1999) Sacred Ecology:  Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Resource Management.  Philadelphia: Francis & Taylor. [selections]

Cronon, William. 1996. “The trouble with wilderness, or, Getting back to the wrong nature.” In Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature, William Cronon, editor, pp. 69-90.  NY: W. W. Norton.

Denevan, William M. 1992. The pristine myth: The landscape of the Americas in 1492.  Annals of the Association of American Geographers 82: 369-85.

Pollan, Michael (2002a) Power steer. New York Times Magazine, 31 March.

Pollan, Michael (2002b) When a crop becomes king. New York Times, 19 July.

Robbins, Paul (2004) The hatchet and the seed.  In Political Ecology: A Critical Introduction, pp. 3-16.  Oxford: Blackwell.

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