TY - BOOK ID - 136310163 TI - Ethnographies Of Conservation : Environmentalism and the Distribution of Privilege AU - Anderson, David G. AU - Berglund, Eeva. PY - 2004 SN - 0857456741 PB - New York, NY : Berghahn Books, DB - UniCat KW - Conservation of natural resources KW - Consumption (Economics) KW - Distribution (Economic theory) KW - Distributive justice. KW - Environmental ethics. KW - Human ecology KW - Material accountability. KW - Economic aspects. KW - Moral and ethical aspects. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136310163 AB - Anthropologists know that conservation often disempowers already under-privileged groups, and that it also fails to protect environments. Through a series of ethnographic studies, this book argues that the real problem is not the disappearance of ""pristine nature"" or even the land-use practices of uneducated people. Rather, what we know about culturally determined patterns of consumption, production and unequal distribution, suggests that critical attention would be better turned on discourses of ""primitiveness"" and ""pristine nature"" so prevalent within conservation ideology, and on t ER -