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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