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People's Participation in Urban Governance: A Comparative Study of the Working of Wards Committees in Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra and West Bengal
Contents: Morphogenetic Events During Anther Development, Cytoplasmic and Genetically Engineered Male Sterility in Crop Plants, Physiology and Genetics of Cyanobacterial Spores and …
Consuming Ivory
Examines the complex global impact of the ivory tradeThe economic prosperity of two nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century New England towns rested on factories that manufactured …
Snow Leopard and the Goat
Following the downgrading of the snow leopards status from endangered to vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature in 2017, debate has renewed about the …
Living with Oil and Coal
The nineteenth-century discovery of oil in the eastern Himalayan foothills, together with the establishment of tea plantations and other extractive industries, continues to have a …
Nature Protests
As societies around the world are challenged to respond to ever growing environmental crises, it has become increasingly important for activists, policy makers, and environmental …
Shifting Livelihoods
Honorable Mention for the Society for the Anthropology of Work (SAW) Book PrizeThe many dimensions of gold in a shadow economyPeople employ various methods to extract gold in the …
Turning Land into Capital
In Southeast Asia reversals of earlier agrarian reforms have rolled back "e;land-to-the-tiller"e; policies created in the wake of Cold Warera revolutions. This trend, …
Sustaining Natures
Highlights new directions in the field and topics of interest to undergraduate studentsEnvironmental anthropology is at its best when firmly grounded in respectful and systematic …
Mountains of Blame
Swidden agriculture has long been considered the primary cause of deforestation throughout Southeast Asia, and the Philippine government has used this belief to exclude the …
Roses from Kenya
Honorable Mention for the Society for the Anthropology of Work (SAW) Book prizeThe potential of floriculture grows at Lake NaivashaKenya supplies more than 35 percent of the …
Shifting Ground
Environmental history of India has developed as an important field of inquiry in the last twenty-five years. While providing major insights, the existing scholarship has primarily …
Agrarian Environments
Agrarian Environments questions the dichotomies that have structured earlier analyses of environmental processes in India and offers a new way of looking at the relationship …