Troubles with Turtles: Cultural Understandings of the Environment on a Greek Island

by D. Theodossopulos and Dimitris Theodossopoulos

The people of Vassilikos, farmers and tourist entrepreneurs on the Greek island of Zakynthos, are involved in a bitter environmental dispute concerning the conservation of sea turtles. Against the environmentalists' practices and ideals they set their own culture of relating to the land, cultivation, wild and domestic animals.

Written from an anthropological perspective, this book puts forward the idea that a thorough study of indigenous...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571816976
• ISBN13: 9781571816979
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"