334 INDEPENDENT STUDENT PROJECTS
Five-to-ten page critique of book or study chosen with Damon's consent:
Choice made by 2/19, First draft turned in by 3/26; and Final draft
turned in on April 23. These will be discussed on the
Wednesdays of 3/26 & 4/23. Regional groupings are to be encouraged.
SUGGESTED BOOKS
Anderson, Edgar 1952 [1969]
PLANTS. MAN, AND LIFE Berkeley: University of California Press
Anderson, Edward F. 1993
PLANTS AND PEOPLE OF THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE:Ethnobotany of the Hill Tribes
of Northern Thailand Portland: Dioscorides Press.
Atran, Scott 1990
COGNITIVE FOUNDATIONS OF NATURAL HISTORY: Towards an
anthropology of science Cambrdige: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS/Paris:
EDITIONS DE LA MAISON DES SCIENCES DE L'HOME.
Balee, William 1990
FOOTPRINTS OF THE FOREST: Ka'apor Ethnobotanv--the historical Ecology of
Plant Utilization by an Amazonian People New York: Columbia University
Press.
Bateson, Gregory & Rodney Donaldson 1991
A Sacred Unity: Further Steps to An Ecology of Mind New York: Conelia & Michael
Bessie
Bauman, Hellmut 1993
The Gree Plant World in Myth. Art and Literature Translated by William T. Steam and
Eldwyth RuthStearn
Brook, Timothy 1993
Praving for Power: Buddhism & the formation of Gentry Society. Cambridge: Harvard
Universiety Press
Brown, Barbara Anne 1991
Sherppa of Khumbu: people. Iivestock & landscape Delhi & New York: Oxford U. P.
Cockburn, Alexander 1997
Nightwatch Over nature: Peoples, Natures, olitics, Westview Press ISBN 0-8133-30548.
Collins, Mark N 1991
The Conservation Atlas of Trocical forests: Asia and the Pacific New
York: Simon & Schuster
Conklin, Harold 1980
Ethnographic Atlas of If ugao: A study of environment. culture and
society. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Davis, Wade 1996
ONE RIVER Exploration and Ddiscoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest.
Simon & Schuster.
Dean, Warren 1987
Brazil and the Struggle for rubber Cambridge: Cambrdige Unviversity
Press.
Delaney, Carol Lowery 1991 The Seed and the Soil: gender and
cosmology in Turkish village society
Denslow, Julia and Christine Padoch 1988
People in the Tropical Rainforest
Descola, PhilliD 1996
THE SPEARS OF TWILIGHT Life and Death in The Amazon Jungle
Translated from the French by Janet Lloyd. The New Press
Duncan, James S. 1990
The Citv as Text: The Politics of Landscape Interpretation in the Kandyan Kingdom
Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press.
Ellen, Roy 1978
NUAULU SETTLELMENT AND ECOLOGY: An Approach to the Environmental
Relations of an Eastern Indonesian Community. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff.
1982
Environment, Subsistence & System: The Ecology of Small Scale Social Formations. New
York & Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1993
THE CULTURAL RELATIONS OF CLASSIFICATION: An Analysis of Nuaulu animal
Categories from central Seram. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Ellen, Roy & David Reason 1979
Classifications in their Social Context London & New York: Academic Pre Fox, James 197
Harvest of the Palm: Ecological Change in Eastern Indonesia Cambridge:
Harvard University Press.
Fussell, Betty 1992
The Story of Corn . New York: Knopf.
Gedicks, A1 1993
THE NEW RESOURCE WARS: Native and Environmental Struggles Against
Multinational Corporations Boston:, South End Press
Green,TamaraM. 1992
The City of the Moon God: religious traditions of Harran.
Greenhalgh, Michael 1992
Greek and Roman cities of Western Turkey London: A. Seaby
Haynes in R,J. 1986
MINERAL NITROGEN IN THE PLANT-SOIL SYSTEM Academic Press, Inc.
Hecht,Susanna & Alexander Cockburn 1989
THE FATE OF THE FOREST: Developers. Destroyers and Defenders of the
Amazon London: Verso
Holston, James 1989
The Modernist City: An Anthropological Critique of Brasilia Chicago:
University of Chicago Press
Hugh-Jones, Stephen 1992
The Palm and the Pleiades: Initiation and Cosmololgv in Northwest
Amazonia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Jacobson-Widding, Anita (ed.) 1991
Body and Space: Symbolic models of unity and division in African cosmology and
experience Uppsala: Acta Universitas Upsaliensis; Stockhlom: Almqqvist & Wiksell,
dist
Johannes, R.E. 1981
WORDS OF THE LAGOON: Fishing and Marine Lore in the Palau District of
Micronesia:Berkeley:University of California Press.
Johns,Timothy (1990)
WITH BITTER HERBS THEY SHALL EAT IT: Chemical Ecology and the Origins of
Human Diet and Medicine. Tuscon: Arizona University Press
Kauffman, Stuart A. 1993
The Origins of Order: self-organization and selection in evolution New York:Oxford
University Press.
Kirch, Patrick 1994
THE WET AND THE DRY: Irrigation and Agricultural Intensification in Polvnesia:
Chicago: University of Chicago Press
Laughlin, Robert, Dennis Breedlove 1993
The Flowering of Man Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.
Leach, Melissa 1994
RAINFOREST RELATIONS: Gender and Resource Use among the Mende of Gola,
Sierra Leone. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.
Litchez, Raymond (ed) 1992
The Dervish lodge: architecture. art, and Sufism in Ottoman Turkey Berkeley: UCP.
Mannikka, Eleanor
ANGKOT WAT: Time Space and Kingship Honolulu; University of Hawai'i Press
Marcus, Julie 1992
A World of Difference: Islam. and gender hierarchy in Turkey London: Atlantic
Highlands.
Masudo, Shozo, Izumi Shimada and Craig Morris (eds.) (1985)
ANDEAN ECOLOGY AND CIVILIZATION: An interdisciplinary Perspective on
Andean Ecological Complementqriy University of Tokyo Press.
Miller, Allen S 1991
Gaia Connections: An Introduction to Ecology, ecoethics, and economics Savage, Md:
Rowman & Littlefield.
Moran, Emilio 1993
THROUGH AMAZONIAN EYES:The Human Ecology of Amazonian Populations.
Iowa City: University of Iowa Press.
Peluso, Nancy Lee 1992
RICH FORESTS, POOR PEOPLE: Resource Control and Resistence in Java. Berkely:
University of California Press.
Pollock, Nancy J. 1992
THESE ROOTS REMAIN: Food Habits inIslands of the Central and Eastern pacific since
Western Contact.Laie: Institute for Polynesian Studies
Rackham, Oliver, 1986. The History ofthe Countryside. London. J.M. Dent.
Ramakrishnan, P. S. 1992 Shifting Agriculture & sustainable development:
An interdisciplenary study from North East India Paris: Unesco
Redford, Kent H. and Christine Padoch 1992
CONSERVATIOIN OF NEOTROPICAL FORESTS: Working from Traditional
Resource Use New York: Columbia University Press.
Reichel-Dolmatoff, Gerardo 1971 Amazonian Cosmos Chicago:UCP
Reichel-Dolmatoff, Gerardo 1975
Shaman and the Jaguar: A Studv of Nacotic Drugs Among the Indians
of Columbia.
Sallares, Robert 1991
The Ecology of the Ancient Greek World Ithica: Cornell University Press.
Schulte Nordholt, H. G. 1971
The political system of the Atoni of Timor. PUBLISHED The Hague, Nijhoff, 1971. good
for agricultural stuff
Sillitoe, Paul 1983
ROOTS OF THE EARTH: Crops in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea.
Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Smith, Andrew 1992
Pastorialism in Africa: origins and developoment ecology London: Hurst & Co.
Smith, Nigel et.al 1992
Tropical forests and Their Crops. Ithica: Cornell University Press.
Sutlive, V., ed. 1981a Where Have All the Flowers Gone? Deforestation
in the Third World. Studies in Third World Societies No. 13.
Williamsburg: College of William and Mary.
1981b Blowing in the Wind: Deforestation and Longrange Implications.
Studies in Third World Societies No. 14. Williamsburg: College of
William and Mary.
Terbouogh, John 1992
Diversity and the tropical rainforest. New York: Scientific American Library
Toulmin, Camilla 1992 Cattle, women and wells: managing household survival in the Sahel
Oxford & New York: Oxford U.P.
Tsing, Anna 1993 In the Realm of the Diamond Queen Princeton: Princeton University Press
Urton, Gary 1981 At the Crossroads of the Earth and Sky Austin: UT Press
Van Slyke, Lyman P. 1988
YANTZE Nature, History. and The river. Reading, MA.: Addison-Wesley Pub. Inc.
Wachs, Martin & Margaret Crawford 1992
The Car and the City Ann Arbor UMP
Wheatley 1971 The Pivot of the Four Quarters Edinbugh University Press.
Whistler, Arthur 1992
POLYNEISAN HERBAL MEDICINE Lawai: National Tropical Botanical Garden
POTENTIAL REPORTS
1. See R. Gelbspan, "The Heat Is On" in Harper's Magazine December
1995. An articles also appeared in The Washington Post concerning this
article, and I would guess The New York Times. A full scale report would
be expected on this event, perhaps including interviewing P. Michaels.
2. An analysis of Internet sites devoted to Environmental issues, e.g.
rainforest destruction or other such vices.
3. Any other topic agreed upon with Damon.
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