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Title
Letter From the Editors
Document Type
Article
Date of this Version
2005
Abstract
We of the new journal Ecological and
Environmental Anthropology thank you for
visiting us and hope to engage you in the
discussions and debates we aim to spark. We
would like the journal to serve as a nexus for the
free flow of ideas of scholars and practitioners in
a wide range of fields, since many disciplines are
both contained within, and influenced by,
ecological and environmental anthropology.
Interest in and compassion for people lie at the
heart of anthropology, and we would like to
dedicate our first issue to the people of Asia and
Africa who became victims of one of history’s
most powerful natural disasters on 26 December
2004. It has now been almost two months since
the earthquake and tsunamis, and the death toll
continues to rise to well past a quarter million
now. Over one hundred thousand people still have
not been found in the Aceh province of Indonesia
alone; mass graves continue to be filled there
daily. Many families are being shuffled around, as
they try to find food, clean water, medical
supplies, and housing, as well as seek protection
from disease, theft, political tension, child
exploitation, and sexual violence. We here at the
University of Georgia have been personally
affected. Three of twelve exchange students who
came here several years ago from Banda Aceh are
known to be dead or are still missing.
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Published in Ecological and Environmental Anthropology Vol. 1, No. 1, 2005. Copyright © 2005. Used by permission. Online at http://eea.anthro.uga.edu/index.php/eea/index