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Informationen zum Autor By Andrew P. Vayda Klappentext In this selection of essays from the past two decades, Vayda focuses on research and explanation concerned with causes of concrete events, especially human actions and the environmental changes brought about by them. Zusammenfassung In this selection of essays from the past two decades! Vayda focuses on research and explanation concerned with causes of concrete events! especially human actions and the environmental changes brought about by them. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Chapter 1. Causal Explanation as a Research Goal: Do's and Don'ts Chapter 3 Chapter 2. Both Ends of the Firestick: Causal Explanation of Indonesian Forest Fires Chapter 4 Chapter 3. On Knowing What Not to Know about Knowing: A Critical View of Local Knowledge Studies Chapter 5 Chapter 4. Do We Need an Anthropological Perspective on Tropical Deforestation? Chapter 6 Chapter 5. Seeing Nature's Complexity but Not People's Chapter 7 Chapter 6. Against Political Ecology Chapter 8 Chapter 7. Failures of Explanation in Darwinian Ecological Anthropology Chapter 9 Chapter 8. Concepts of Process in Social Science Explanations Chapter 10 Chapter 9. Explaining Why Marings Fought: Different Questions, Different Answers Chapter 11 Chapter 10. The Anthropology of War: Polemics and Confusion
