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Explaining human actions and environmental changes
- Title
- Explaining human actions and environmental changes / Andrew P. Vayda.
- Author
- Vayda, Andrew Peter.
- Publication
- Lanham, MD : AltaMira Press, [2009], ©2009.
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- Description
- xii, 303 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-289) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Causal Explanation as a Research Goal: Dos and Don'ts -- 2. Both Ends of the Firestick: Causal Explanation of Indonesian Forest Fires -- 3. On Knowing What Not to Know about Knowing: A Critical View of Local Knowledge Studies / Bradley B. Walters and Indah Setyawati -- 4. Do We Need an Anthropological Perspective on Tropical Deforestation? -- 5. Seeing Nature's Complexity but Not People's -- 6. Against Political Ecology / Bradley B. Walters -- 7. Failures of Explanation in Darwinian Ecological Anthropology -- 8. Concepts of Process in Social Science Explanations / Bonnie J. McCay and Cristina Eghenter -- 9. Explaining Why Marings Fought: Different Questions, Different Answers -- 10. The Anthropology of War: Polemics and Confusion.
- ISBN
- 9780759103238 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0759103232 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780759119000 (electronic)
- 0759119007 (electronic)
- LCCN
- 2008055699
- 40016801605
- OCLC
- ocn297222792
- 297222792
- SCSB-5479514
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries