Natural Enemies

People-Wildlife Conflicts in Anthropological Perspective
Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-415-22441-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 339 g

Reihe: European Association of Social Anthropologists

Wild animals raid crops, attack livestock, and sometimes threaten people. Conflicts with wildlife are widespread, assume a variety of forms, and elicit a range of human responses. Wildlife pests are frequently demonized and resisted by local communities while routinely 'controlled' by state authorities. However, to the great concern of conservationists, the history of many people-wildlife conflicts lies in human encroachment into wildlife territory.
In Natural Enemies the authors place the analytical focus on the human dimension of these conflicts - an area often neglected by specialists in applied ecology and wildlife management - and on their social and political contexts. Case studies of specific conflicts are drawn from Africa, Asia, Europe and America, and feature an assortment of wild animals, including chimpanzees, elephants, wild pigs, foxes, bears, wolves, pigeons and ducks.
These anthropologists challenge the narrow utilitarian view of wildlife pestilence by revealing the cultural character of many of our 'natural enemies'. Their reports from the 'front-line' expose one fact - human conflict with wildlife is often an expression of conflict between people.

Zielgruppe

Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Knight, John

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie Kulturpsychologie, Ethnopsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Religionsethnologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Materielle Kultur, Wirtschaftsethnologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Soziale & wirtschaftliche Auswirkungen von Umweltfaktoren
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Umwelt und Kultur, Kulturökologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltverschmutzung, Umweltkriminalität, Umweltrecht
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 Introduction, KnightJohn; Chapter 2 Wildlife depredations in Malawi, Brian Morris; Chapter 3 Half-man, half-elephant, AxelKöhler; Chapter 4 Chimpanzees as political animals in Sierra Leone, Paul Richards; Chapter 5 Wild pigs, ‘pig-men’ and transmigrants in the rainforest of Sumatra, Simon Rye; Chapter 6 Animals behaving badly, Ben Campbell; Chapter 7 Culling demons, John Knight; Chapter 8 The wolf, the Saami and the urban shaman, Galina Lindquist; Chapter 9 The problem of foxes, Garry Marvin; Chapter 10 The Great Pigeon Massacre in a deindustrializing American region, S. Hoon Song; Chapter 11 Ducks out of water, Kay Milton;

Über Autor(innen)

John Knight is Lecturer at the School of Anthropological Studies, Queen's University of Belfast. Since 1987 he has regularly carried out field research in Japanese mountain villages and has published widely on various subjects related to rural Japan, including wildlife.