The first in a new series of works of anthropology and ethnobiology, this work by Argyrou (social anthropology, U. of Hull, UK) interrogates environmentalism as a cultural paradigm that has come to replace the modernist paradigm. Tracing the connections between the two, he argues that environmentalism does not stand in opposition to modernism, but instead reproduces "the same sort of global power relations and the same sort logic that mark the modernist paradigm at its core" and is thus greeted by the rest of the world with the same suspicions and doubts that greeted the modernist project. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)