Research Catalog

Title

Introduction to cultural ecology / Mark Q. Sutton and E.N. Anderson.

Author

Sutton, Mark Q., 1952-

Publication

Walnut Creek, CA : AltaMira Press, c2004.

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Additional Authors

Anderson, E. N., 1941-

Description

xiii, 384 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"A text for courses in anthropology, environmental studies, and sociology."--Jacket.

Subject

• Human ecology
• Social ecology
• Écologie humaine
• Écologie sociale
• Social Environment

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-376) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction -- What is cultural biology? -- Anthropology -- The Study of human ecology -- A History of thought on culture and environment -- The Rise of human ecology -- Thus ... -- 2 Fundamentals of ecology -- The Environment -- Niche and habitat -- Resources -- Energy -- 3 Human biological ecology -- Humans as animals -- Biological adaptations -- Human population regulation -- Nutrition -- Evolutionary ecology -- 4 Cultural ecology -- Human capabilities -- Culture as an adaptive mechanism -- Traditional knowledge systems -- Human control of the environment -- Decision making -- A Concluding thought on management -- 5 Hunting and gathering -- Hunter-gatherer classification -- The Hunter-gatherer stereotype -- Bias in hunter-gatherer studies -- Population -- Settlement and subsistence -- Environmental manipulation and resource management -- Relations with other groups -- Case study: the
• Nuu-cha-nulth of British Columbia -- Case study: the Mbuti of the Ituri forest -- 6 The Origins of food production -- Agricultural domestication -- The Transition to farming -- On the origin of agriculture -- Types of agriculture -- The Impact of agriculture -- 7 Horticulture -- Horticultural techniques -- Use of wild resources -- Environmental manipulation and resource management -- Relations with other groups -- Case study: the Grand Valley Dani of highland New Guinea -- Case study: the Lozi of Western Zambia -- 8 Pastoral ism -- General sociopolitical organization -- Typesism -- The Geography of pastoralism -- The Origin of pastoralism -- Some parameters of pastoralism -- Use of nonpastoral products -- Environmental manipulation and resource management -- Relations with other groups -- A Note on the impact of grazing -- Case study: the Maasi of East Africa -- Case study: the
• Navajo of the American southwest -- 9 Intensive agriculture -- Changes in scale -- Techniques of intensive agriculture -- Contemporary industrialized agriculture -- Environmental manipulation and resource management -- Relations with other groups -- Case study: Mountains and water - the traditional agricultural system along the South Coastal China -- Case study: The Maya agricultural system -- 10 Current issues and problems -- Tragedy of the commons -- Agricultural involution -- Agricultural development and intensificaiton -- Rain forest dilemma.

ISBN

• 0759105308 (alk. paper)
• 9780759105300 (alk. paper)
• 0759105316 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780759105317 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2003022110

OCLC

• 53170138
• SCSB-10069486

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library