Environment, Subsistence and System: The Ecology of Small-Scale Social Formations - Brossura

Ellen, Roy

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0521287030 ISBN 13: 9780521287036

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1982

Riassunto

An original and innovative study of the pre-eminently social character of human ecological relations.

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Descrizione del libro

This original and innovative study of the pre-eminently social character of human ecological relations will be of considerable interest to all students and researchers concerned with understanding the nature of the relationship between human beings and their environments.

Contenuti

Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Environmental determinism and casual correlation; 2. Possibilism and limiting factors; 3. Cultural ecology and the explanatory imperative; 4. Human ecology and the biological model; 5. The flow of energy and materials; 6. Ecosystems and subsistence patterns I; 7. Ecosystems and subsistence patterns II; 8. Systems and their regulation; 9. Information and the manipulation of the environment; 10. Adaptation: a summary and reconsideration; 11. The reproduction and evolution of social and ecological systems; 12. Ecology in anthropological method and theory; Notes; Bibliography; Name Index; Subject Index.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1982
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0521287030
• ISBN 13: 9780521287036
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 340
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile