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The last decade has seen a dramatic increase in the attention paid by social scientists to environmental issues, and a gradual acknowledgement, in the wider community, of the role of social science in the public debate on sustainability. At the same time, the concept of `culture', once the property of anthropologists has gained wide currency among social scientist. These trends have taken place against a growing perception, among specialist and public, of the global nature of contemporary issues. This book shows how an understanding of culture can throw light on the way environmental issues ar

Résumé Cet article examine la relation entre science et subjectivité au Royaume-Uni, spécifiquement en relation avec la crise de la fièvre aphteuse de 2001. L'élevage intensif nie que les animaux soient des « personnes », c'est-à-dire des êtres avec des pensées et des sentiments. Par contre de nombreux animaux, y compris des animaux d'élevage, sont traités comme des personnes individuelles dans la vie de tous les jours. Pendant la crise de la fièvre aphteuse, le contraste entre ces attitudes était particulièrement clair. Cet article montre que la science et le respect qu'elle inspire en tant qu'arbitre de la vérité ont façonné les représentations et le traitement des animaux de rente, pendant cette crise et d'autres crises récentes.

Discusses the 20th-century evolution of anthropological investigations of human-environment relations & how these studies contribute to the contemporary discourse on environmental issues. Differing from early-century approaches characterized by environmental determinism, midcentury perspectives studied human populations in particular ecological systems & people's cultural attitudes toward the environment; however, the concentration on cultural perspectives advanced cultural relativism. Contemporary environmental anthropologists have countered postmodern cultural relativism by combating the mind/body, thought/action, & culture/nature dichotomies, all seminal components of Western science; moreover, current anthropological knowledge can be applied to environmental issues, particularly the pursuit of sustainable modes of living. It is concluded that politics has subsumed the identity of ecological anthropology; consequently, the survival of humanity may depend on the preservation of human diversity. 2 Photographs, 37 References. Adapted from the source document.