Abstract

To environmentalists: here's a valuable collection of anthropological perspectives 15 papers, outpourings of the 1992 conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists. Kay Milton calls the book 'a tentative step into unknown territory', yet it is a firm and affirmative response to two questions. First, can anthropology catch up with the environmental debate, overcome the domination of the natural sciences, in a field peopled already by sociologists, geographers and economists, to make the anthropological contribution to the search for a viable future? Second, is environmentalism a new aspect of human-environment relations, that playing field already so familiar to anthropologists? In Milton's introduction there are murmurs of concern for the

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