1. Anthropological perspectives on contemporary human problems -- 2. Scale, adaptation, and the environmental crisis -- 3. Natural resources and the culture of consumption -- 4. Malnutrition and the evolution of food systems -- 5. Commercial factory-food systems -- 6. Population problem -- 7. Poverty and conflict -- 8. The future
Summary
Bodley trenchantly critiques the most pressing global mega-problems, such as unsustainable growth, resource depletion, global warming, and poverty and conflict, and shows how anthropology makes it possible to find solutions
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
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