Culture, environment &amp; the enemies of complexity

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[1] Comaroff John L and Jean Comaroff. . 1997. . Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume Two: The Dialectic of Modernity on a South African Frontier . , Chicago : : University of Chicago Press. .

[2] Croll Elizabeth and David Parkin. , eds. 1992. . Bush Base, Forest Farm: Culture, Environment and Development . , London : : Routledge. .

[3] Deleuze Gilles and Felix Guattari. . 1988. . A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia . , London : : Athlone Press. .

[4] Douglas Mary. . 1986. . “‘The Social Preconditions of Radical Scepticism’. ”. In Power, Action and Belief: A New Sociology of Knowledge . , Edited by: Law J. . London : : Routledge and Kegan Paul. .

[5] Escobar Arturo. . 1995. . Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World . , Princeton : : Princeton University Press. .

[6] Fairhead James and Melissa Leach. . 1996. . Misreading the African Landscape: Society and Ecology in a Forest‐savanna Mosaic . , Cambridge : : Cambridge University Press. .

[7] Fog Olwig Karen and Kirsten Hastrup. , eds. 1997. . Siting Culture: The Shifting Anthropological Object . , London : : Routledge. .

[8] Gliek James. . 1988. . Chaos: Making a New Science . , London : : Heinemann. .

[9] Grove Richard H. . 1995. . Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens, and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1600–1860 . , Cambridge : : Cambridge University Press. .

[10] Grove Richard H and JoAnn McGregor. , eds. 1995. . “‘Special Issue: Zimbabwe’. ”. In Environment and History . Vol. Vol. 1. , p. 3

[11] Gupta Akhil and James Ferguson. , eds. 1997. . Anthropological Locations: Boundaries and Grounds of a Field Science . , Berkeley : : University of California Press. .

[12] Hutchinson Sharon. . 1996. . Nuer Dilemmas: Coping with Money, War and the State . , Berkeley : : University of California Press. .

[13] Kapferer Bruce. . 1997. . The Feast of the Sorcerer: Practices of Consciousness and Power . , Chicago : : University of Chicago Press. .

[14] Kaplan Robert D. . 1993. . Balkan Ghosts: A Journey through History . , London : : Macmillan. .

[15] ‘The Coming Anarchy: How Scarcity, Crime, Overpopulation, and Disease are Rapidly Destroying the Social Fabric of Our Planet’. . Atlantic Monthly . , February;: 44––76. .

[16] Lehmann David. . 1997. . ‘An Opportunity Lost: Escobar's Deconstruction of Development’. . Journal of Development Studies, . , Vol. 33((4)): 568––578. .

[17] Mackenzie John M. , ed. 1990. . Imperialism and the Natural World . , Manchester : : Manchester University Press. .

[18] Mohan Giles. . 1997. . ‘Developing Differences: Post‐structuralism and Political Economy in Contemporary Development Studies’. . Review of African Political Economy . , Vol. 73:: 311––328. .

[19] Ong Aihwa. . 1996. . ‘Cultural Citizenship as Subject‐making: Immigrants Negotiate Racial and Cultural Boundaries in the United States’. . Current Anthropology, . , Vol. 37((5)): 737––762. .

[20] Roe E. . 1991. . ‘"Development Narratives”, or Making the Best of Blueprint Development’. . World Development . , Vol. 19((4)): 287––300. .

[21] Schoenbrun David. . 1997. . ‘Review of James L Newman: The Peopling of Africa’. . Journal of African History, . , Vol. 38((1)): 125––126. .

[22] Shaw Rosalind. . 1997. . ‘The Production of Witchcraft/Witchcraft as Production: Memory, Modernity, and the Slave Trade in Sierra Leone’. . American Ethnologist, . , Vol. 24((4)): 856––876. .

[23] Stolcke Verena. . 1995. . ‘Talking Culture: New Boundaries, New Rhetorics of Exclusion in Europe’. . Current Anthropology . , Vol. 36((1)): 1––24. .

[24] Vansina Jan. . 1996. . ‘Review of James L Newman: The Peopling of Africa’. . Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, . , Vol. 17((2)): 202––204. .

[25] Werbner Richard P. . 1991. . Tears of the Dead: The Social Biography of an African Family . , Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press for The International African Institute. .

[26] Wolf Eric R. . 1994. . ‘Perilous Ideas: Race, Culture, People’. . Current Anthropology, . , Vol. 35((1)): 1––12. .

[27] Worster Donald. . 1990. . ‘The Ecology of Order and Chaos’. . Environmental History Review . , Vol. 14((1–2)): 1––18. .