Anthropocentrism is the belief that value is focused on human beings and that all other beings are means to human ends. Related to anthropocentrism, humanism privileges the aim of improvement of human welfare. Humanism has underwritten efforts to expose social injustices and improve the welfare of all …

Via 'She decides', een initiatiefdat Lilianne Ploumen tijdens haar ministerschap heeft opgezet, wordt geld ingezameld voor hulp bij gezinsplanning in landen waar dat 'nodig' is. Maar wie bepaalt of dit nodig is? Hoewel er veel enthousiaste geluiden te horen zijn over dit initiatief, zijn er ook bedenkingen …

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book introduces the development of environmental anthropology as a distinct sub-field and its central theoretical issues, and provides extensive intellectual histories and commentary by the …

De auteur bespreekt De corporate tribe. Organisatielessen uit de antropologie van Danielle Braun Jitske Kramer (2015), dat werd verkozen tot managementboek van 2016. Het boek biedt een kijkje in het leven van volkeren over de hele wereld, met de intentie daaruit te leren voor westerse organisaties. De …

There are many different uses of the term sustainability as well as its derivatives, such as social sustainability, environmental sustainability, sustainable development, sustainable living, sustainable future, and many others. Literally, the word sustainability means the capacity to support, maintain …

Als antropoloog kiest Afke Tangenbergh graag de invalshoek van de beleving. Daarom liep ze voor haar afstudeerscriptie voor de master Culturele Antropologie (UvA, 2013) drie maanden mee met hospicevrijwilligers in hospice Cadenza en zocht ze antwoorden op vragen als: wat biedt het werk de vrijwilligers, …

This chapter addresses environmental education as an important subject of anthropological inquiry and demonstrates how ethnographic research can contribute to our understanding of environmental learning both in formal and informal settings. Anthropology of environmental education is rich in ethnographies …

Anthropology is traditionally broken into several subfields, physical/biological anthropology, social/cultural anthropology, linguistic anthropology, archaeology, and sometimes also applied anthropology. Anthropology of the environment, or environmental anthropology, is a specialization within the field …

While the notion of ‘human nature’ has been devaluated from the status of ‘grand theory’ to a marginal anthropological debate, I argue that it deserves to be resurrected in order to comprehend some of the explanatory gaps inherent in other theories. Industrialization signifies a turning point in human …

This article examines environmental ethics theories focused on the division between “anthropocentric” and “ecocentric” approaches in regard to three valuebases for environmental concern: self-interest, humanistic altruism, and biospheric altruism. The author argues that while applied anthropologists …