Research Catalog

Title

Studies in human ecology; a joint publication of the Anthropological Society of Washington and the General Secretariat of the Organization of American States.

Publication

[Washington, D.C., The Anthropological Society of Washington, 1957, reprinted 1971]

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Additional Authors

• Krader, Lawrence
• Palerm, Ángel.
• Anthropological Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.)
• Organisation of American States.

Description

138 p.

Summary

"The topic around which the lecture series and the present monograph are focussed is that of man and environment. There is a common approach to this problem area shared by anthropology and such related disciplines as medical ecology. Of the many approaches to the study of culture in general, one has been brought forward as being most applicable to the study of man-and-environment. That is the view of culture as a screen between man and the world around him."

Subject

Human ecology

Note

• Based on a series of lectures held by the Anthropological Society of Washington.
• "A joint publication of the Anthropological Society of Washington and the General Secretariat of the Organization of American States."
• "Foreword signed by Lawrence Krader and Angel Palerm."
• "Lectures presented October 1955. May 1956 at the Anthropological Society of Washington."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword -- Ecological potential and cultural development in Mesoamerica / Angel Palerm and Eric R. Wolf -- The Central North American grassland : man-made or natural / by Waldo R. Wedel -- Environment and culture in the Amazon basin : an appraisal of the theory of environmental determinism / by Betty J. Meggers -- The ecology of human disease / by Jacques M. May -- Culture and environment in interior Asia / by Lawrence Krader.

OCLC

645362

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library