The Ecological Transition: Cultural Anthropology and Human Adaptation

ISBN-13: 9780765805348 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 392 str.

John William Bennett; John William Bennett

Opis

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 questions inherent in these relationships broadened beyond description and classifi cation. For example, the concept of environment has been extended beyond the physical into the social.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

John W. Bennett