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- 496pp.
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- 1991
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In The Ecosystem Approach in Anthropology, leading figures in the study of biological and human ecology evaluate the contribution made by ecological and ecosystem studies to anthropology and propose ways to advance the state of knowledge in ecological analysis. The book is a completely new, thoroughly revised edition of The Ecosystem Concept in Anthropology, published in 1984. Four new essays have been added, and the remaining essays have been significantly updated and revised to reflect recent changes in ecological research. Unlike the earlier edition, the goal of which was to reassess the ecosystem concept for anthropology, this new edition incorporates that material within an organization that discusses how ecological research can be designed profitably and executed within an ecosystem framework.
Table of Contents
About the Editor and Contributors ix
Preface xv
Part I. Assessment of the Ecosystem Approach
Chapter One. Ecosystem Ecology in Biology and Anthropology: A Critical Assessment
by Emilio F. Moran 3
Chapter Two. Ecosystems, Populations and People
by Roy A. Rappaport 41
Part II. Ecosystemic Approaches in Archaeological Research Design and Practice
Chapter 3. The Ecosystem Concept in Archaeology
by Michael Jochim 75
Chapter 4. A Human Ecosystem Framework for Archaeology
by Karl W. Butzer 91
Chapter 5. The Ecosystem Model and Long-Term Prehistoric Change: An Example from the Andes
by Christine A. Hastorf 131
Chapter 6. An Archaeological Assessment of Ecosystems in the Tucson Basin of Southern Arizona
by Suzanne K. Fish and Paul R. Fish 159
Part III. Ecosystemic Approaches in Cultural Anthropology: Research Design and Practice
Chapter 7. Trade, Environment, and the Reproduction of Local Systems in the Moluccas
by Roy F. Ellen 191
Chapter 8. Links and Boundaries:
Reconsidering the Alpine Village as Ecosystems
by Robert McC. Netting 229
Chapter 9. The Ecology of Cumulative Change
by Susan H. Lees and Daniel G. Bates 247
Chapter 10. Levels of Analysis and Analytical Level Shifting: Examples from Amazonian Ecosystem Research
by Emilio F. Moran 279
Chapter 11. Ecosystems and Methodological Problems in Ecological Anthropology
by Daniel R. Gross 309
Part IV. Towards Interdisciplinarity in Ecosystem Research
Chapter 12. Household Ecology: Decision Making and Resource Flows
by Richard R. Wilk 323
Chapter 13. 1990 and Beyond: Satellite Remote Sensing and Ecological Anthropology
by Francis Paine Conant 357
Chapter 14. Ecosystem Approaches in Human Biology: Their History and a Case Study of the South Turkana Ecosystem Project
by Michael A. Little, Neville Dyson-Hudson, Rada Dyson-Hudson, James E. Ellis, Kathleen A. Galvin, Paul W. Leslie, and David M. Swift 389
Chapter 15. Ecosystems, Environmentalism, Resource Conservation, and Anthropological Research
by John W. Bennett 435
Name Index 459
Subject Index 461