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Explaining Human Actions and Environmental Changes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 321

Explaining Human Actions and Environmental Changes

In this selection of essays from the past two decades, Vayda focuses on research and explanation concerned with causes of concrete events, especially human actions and the environmental changes brought about by them.

War in Ecological Perspective
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 143

War in Ecological Perspective

This book deals with war in three Oceanian societies. More specifi cally, it analyzes the following: the process of war in relation to population pressure among New Guinea's Maring people; exten sion and contraction in the headhunting activities of the Iban people of Sarawak during the nineteenth century; and the disrup tion resulting from the introduction of muskets in the warfare of the Maoris of New Zealand. In all of the analyses, I have viewed war as a process rather than simply as something that either does or does not occur and I have tried to see how the process relates to environmental problems or perturbations actually faced by people. The use of such an approach can, I believe, le...

Environment and Cultural Behavior
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 508

Environment and Cultural Behavior

"This anthology deals with human ecology-- the relationship between man and his environment. In it the editor brings together the most exciting new studies by anthropologists to have been written in the past few years, some of which appear here for the first time. From second-millennium agriculture to twentieth-century air pollution, this volume includes a unique variety of studies of man and the world around him."--Back cover.

Evolutionary Ecology and Human Behavior
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 511

Evolutionary Ecology and Human Behavior

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  • Published: 2017-09-29
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  • Publisher: Routledge

""à required reading for anyone interested in the economy, ecology, and demography of human societies."" --American Journal of Human Biology ""This excellent book can serve both as a text¼book and as a scholarly reference."" --American Scientist

Against the Grain
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 400

Against the Grain

Against the Grain gathers scholars from across disciplines to explore the work of ecological anthropologist Andrew P. Vayda and the future of the study of human ecology.

Causal Explanation for Social Scientists
  • Language: en

Causal Explanation for Social Scientists

Social scientists everywhere have an interest in understanding and explaining what happens in the world. In this anthology, Vayda and Walters aid social scientists with strategy and methods to answer their causal questions. The selected readings are not only by anthropologists, sociologists, economists, and human ecologists, but also by philosophers, biologists, historians, and specialists in various other fields. It will appeal to those doing applied research on practical problems, as well as to those seeking to satisfy their intellectual curiosity about why things happen.

Humans as Components of Ecosystems
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 381

Humans as Components of Ecosystems

Highlighting the importance to ecological studies of incorporating humans and their effects on ecosystems, leading experts from a variety of disciplines address a number of important issues, including: * the prominent role of humans in the function of ecosystems on Earth * why humans have been ignored in ecological studies * approaches taken by social scientists, historians, geographers, economists, and anthropologists in the study of human activities * the emergence of a new ecological paradigm accommodating human activities * methods for studying subtle human effects, and human- populated ecosystems * future research and training required to include humans effectively as components of ecological systems. Of interest to students and researchers in ecology, and to policy-makers and environmental managers. In addition, it makes social scientists aware of new opportunties for integrating their ideas with those of ecologists.

Human Ecology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 373

Human Ecology

This book arose from the need to develop accessible research-based case study material which addresses contemporary issues and problems in the rapidly evolving field of human ecology. Academic, political, and, indeed, public interest in the environmental sciences is on the rise. This is no doubt spurred by media coverage of climate change and global warming and attendant natural disasters such as unusual drought and flood conditions, toxic dust storms, pollution of air and water, and the like. But there is also a growing intellectual awareness of the social causes of anthropogenic environmental impacts, political vectors in determining conser- tion outcomes, and the role of local representat...

Ecological Anthropology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 328

Ecological Anthropology

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Cosmologies in the Making
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 116

Cosmologies in the Making

All culture, particularly that of non-literate traditions, is constantly being recreated, and in the process also undergoes changes. In this book, Fredrik Barth examines the changes that have taken place in the secret cosmological lore transmitted in male initiation ceremonies among the Mountain Ok of Inner New Guinea, and offers a new way of explaining how cultural change occurs. Professor Barth focuses in particular on accounting for the local variations in cosmological traditions that exist among the Ok people, who otherwise share similar material and ecological conditions, and similar languages. Rejecting existing anthropological theory as inadequate for explaining this, Professor Barth ...