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

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

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• Authors: R. F. Ellen, Roy Ellen, Roy F. Ellen
• Assisted by: Jack Goody (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.1982
• EAN: 9780521287036
• ISBN: 978-0-521-28703-6
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: London Mathematical Society Le
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology