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This paper analyses four different but connected explanations for addressing environmental change on Mount Kilimanjaro. These explanations are: the scientific, the chiefly, the economic, and that which pertains to social policy. Scientists document that the glaciers on Mount Kilimanjaro are thinning and disappearing. Descendants within chiefly lineages argue that their authority needs to be revitalised to protect the environment. Economists defend the value of harvesting and exporting natural and agricultural resources, while social policy advocates recommend teaching the public about these interweaving interests. An effort is needed to connect and question these four narratives through an environmental education that promotes deep anthropological analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This paper applies and adapts an approach derived from anthropology previously known as grid-group theory and later as Cultural Theory (CT). CT is concerned with connections between forms of organization and the values and behaviors of actors within them. It first briefly outlines the structural bases of CT. In doing so it offers a framework for understanding how corporate organizations can be classified as cultures, demonstrating four archetypal categories. It identifies dominant features of each then shows with examples their manifestations in different uses of space - both internal and external. Space is linked integrally to information flow and control. Predictable and forecastable patterns are identified for each archetype. They are shown to relate to the differential selection, enforcement or abnegation of boundaries and the varying forms of exploitation, constraints and sanctions used to sustain them. The paper then examines the symbolic and ceremonial uses of space and effective and ineffective uses. It shows how organizations cannot be considered unicultural; but are mixed “regimes” comprising symbiotic but not necessarily synergistic cultures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The papers in this volume generally represent new developments in anthropology and cultural theory. Inevitably, in an evolutionary flowering, divergence can occur. Two of the papers represent a very new approach to theory for anthropology. This note discusses issues related to construction of theory that distinguish those papers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]