Cultural ecology is all the rage. It comes in several forms. For example,
drugs companies are hiring 鈥淓thnobotanists鈥� to sniff out the medicinal secrets
of rainforest dwellers. Or, as here, apologists for the role of native religions
in managing natural resources. E. N. Anderson鈥檚 Ecologies of the Heart (Oxford
University Press, $25/拢18.99, available in UK in June, ISBN 0 19
509010 1) says mystics beat scientists because they see more clearly and care
more.
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