1st Edition
The Ecological Transition Cultural Anthropology and Human Adaptation
By John W. Bennett
Copyright 2005
392 Pages
by
Routledge
392 Pages
by
Routledge
378 Pages
by
Routledge
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Written during the height of the ecology movement, The Ecological Transition is a stunning interdisciplinary work. It combines anthropology, ecology, and sociology to formulate an understanding of cultural-environmental relationships. While anthropologists have been studying relationships between humans and the physical environment for a very long time, only in the last thirty years have... Read more
1: Prologue: Images of Man and Nature; 2: Culture, Ecology, and Social Policy; 3: Human Ecology and Cultural Ecology; 4: System, Ecosystem, and Social System; 5: The Ecological Transition: From Equilibrium to Disequilibrium; 6: Culture and Ecology: The Use of Biological Concepts; 7: Culture and Ecology: Culture as the Master Variable; 8: Adaptation and Human Behavior; 9: Adaptation as Social Process; 10: Epilogue: Ecology, Culture, and Anthropology
Biography
John W. Bennett
