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Blog Roll and Web Links
Reading anthro blogs is a great way to keep up with the latest developments and discoveries in the field, to get a sense of the most important debates and controversies and to find out what anthropologists think about world events. There are literally hundreds of blogs maintained by professional anthropologists from all the subfields (a quite comprehensive list can be found at http://anthropologyreport.com/anthropology-blogs-2014/).
- Monkey’s Uncle (http://monkeysuncle.stanford.edu/)
A blog written by Stanford biological anthropologist James Holland Jones on ecology, population, and infectious disease.
- Ethnographer Ecographer (http://heatheryoungleslie.wordpress.com/blog/)
Heather Young-Leslie is a practicing anthropologist with a regional specialty in Oceania who writes and consults on issues such as social justice, ecological sustainability, global health, and public anthropology.
- Anthropology and Environment Society Blog (http://www.aaanet.org/sections/ae/index.php/category/
engagement-blog/)
Guest bloggers from across the subfield of environmental anthropology report on ongoing research, muse about enduring questions, and respond to contemporary events. An excellent place to understand the range of issues that occupy the attention of the subfield today.
- Anthropogen (http://anthropogen.com/)
This blog by Spencer Woodard follows his “global travels focusing on plants, ethnobotany, agroforestry, agroecology, traditional agriculture [and] land management systems, general photography, and related news and current events.”
- CASTAC Blog (http://blog.castac.org/)
The CASTAC (Committee on the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing) blog focuses on anthropological studies of science and technology as social phenomena. It aims to promote dialogue on theories, tools, and social interactions that explore questions at the intersection of anthropology and science and technology studies.
Other Web Resources
The Oxford Bibliographies site include an entry on environmental anthropology:
The World Parks Congress discussed throughout chapter 15 has a website describing its organizational goals and resources: http://worldparkscongress.org/
The BBC series Human Planet (www.bbc.co.uk/nature/humanplanetexplorer/) is an engaging, visually stunning introduction to the relationships between environment and culture. Episodes are available on DVD and are about 50 minutes long:
- “Oceans—Into the Blue”
- “Deserts—Life in the Furnace”
- “Arctic—Life in the Deep Freeze”
- “Jungles–People of the Trees”
- “Mountains—Life in Thin Air”
- “Grasslands—Roots of Power”
- “Rivers—Friend and Foe”
- “Cities–Surviving the Urban Jungle”
Conservation International (http://www.conservation.org/Pages/default.aspx) can be used to illustrate the philosophy and methods of many international conservation organizations.
The United Nations Environment Programme maintains a website that provides background on protected areas around the globe (http://www.unep-wcmc.org/featured-projects/mapping-the-worlds-special-places). There is a link to a global map of protected areas.