Culture and Conservation: Beyond Anthropocentrism

by Helen Kopnina and Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet

Book Overview

Today, there is growing interest in conservation and anthropologists have an important role to play in helping conservation succeed for the sake of humanity and for the sake of other species. Equally important, however, is the fact that we, as the species that causes extinctions, have a moral responsibility to those whose evolutionary unfolding and very future we threaten.

This volume is an examination of the relationship between conservation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138051594
• ISBN13: 9781138051591
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"