ISBN:
9780080178684
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (389 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Bennett, John W The Ecological Transition : Cultural Anthropology and Human Adaptation
DDC:
304.2
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Front Cover -- The Ecological Transition: Cultural Anthropology and Human Adaptation -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- The Author -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 1. Prologue: Images of Man and Nature -- NATURE INTO CULTURE -- THE ECOLOGICAL TRANSITION AND ITS IMAGERY -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 2. Culture, Ecology, and Social Policy -- SOCIETY AS ENVIRONMENT -- SYSTEMS -- SOCIETY AS ENVIRONMENT (continued) -- CULTURE AND ECOLOGY -- RELEVANCE AND POLICY -- RELEVANCE AND CULTURAL ECOLOGY -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 3. Human Ecology and Cultural Ecology -- THE PARADIGM -- ENERGY TRANSFORMATION
Abstract:
THE CONCEPT OF FEEDBACK -- THE FEEDBACK LOOPS -- SOME FURTHER IMPLICATIONS OF FIG. 1 -- DIVISION OF PROFESSIONAL LABOR -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 4. System, Ecosystem, and Social System -- SYSTEMS AND SELF-REGULATION -- THE ADAPTIVE SYSTEM -- PLANT ECOSYSTEMS AND HUMAN ECOLOGY -- BEHAVIORAL ADAPTATION AS SYSTEMIC -- INSTITUTIONAL PROCESS MODELS -- THE SOCIONATURAL SYSTEM -- LARGE-SCALE SYSTEMIC PROCESSES: THE DEMOGRAPHIC AND MOBILITY TRANSITIONS -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 5. The Ecological Transition: From Equilibrium to Disequilibrium -- THE ECOLOGICAL TRANSITION AS MATERIAL AND DEMOGRAPHIC EVOLUTION
Abstract:
THE PROBLEM OF STAGNATION -- THE ECOLOGICAL TRANSITION AS A PROBLEM OF EQUILIBRIUM -- THE CASE OF JAPAN -- CHANGE -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 6. Culture and Ecology: The Use of Biological Concepts -- INTRODUCTION TO CHAPTERS 6 AND 7 -- BIOLOGICAL CONCEPTS AND SOCIAL DATA -- ECOLOGICAL NICHES -- PIGS, RITUAL, AND ECOLOGICAL CONTROL -- ECOLOGICAL CONTROL AND HOMEOSTASIS IN SIMPLER SOCIETIES -- BIOLOGY AND CULTURE IN RELATIONSHIP -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 7. Culture and Ecology: Culture as the Master Variable -- KROEBER'S VERSION OF POSSIBILISM -- JULIAN STEWARD'S ""CULTURAL ECOLOGY"" -- SOME OTHER APPROACHES
Abstract:
MONOGRAPHIC CULTURAL ECOLOGY -- CULTURAL ECOLOGY AND PREHISTORY -- POPULATION, RESOURCES, AND ENVIRONMENT -- HARRIS' ""CULTURAL MATERIALISM"" -- EPILOGUE TO CHAPTER 7 -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 8. Adaptation and Human Behavior -- THE CONCEPT OF ADAPTATION -- THE ROOTS OF ADAPTATION -- SYSTEMS AND ADAPTIVE DYNAMICS -- RECAPITULATION -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 9. Adaptation as Social Process -- ADAPTATION AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORY -- ADAPTIVE DYNAMICS -- TRANSACTIONS AND NETWORKS -- SOME ADAPTIVE PROCESSES -- THE ALLOCATION OF RESOURCES -- THE PROBLEM OF REGULATION OF RESOURCE USE
Abstract:
ADAPTATION AND MALADAPTATION -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 10. Epilogue: Ecology, Culture, and Anthropology -- References -- Index
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