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TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS EDITORS? BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION ORIGINAL SOURCES INTRODUCTION: MAJOR HISTORICAL CURRENTS IN ENVIRONMENTAL ANTHROPOLOGY I. THE NATURE-CULTURE DICHOTOMY 1. Questioning the Nature-Culture Dichotomy: From Posey?s Indigenous Knowledge to Fairhead and Leach?s Politics of Knowledge (1) Posey, Darrell A. 1985. Indigenous Management of Tropical Forest Ecosystems: The Case of the Kayap¢ Indians of the Brazilian Amazon. (2) Fairhead, James and Melissa Leach. 1995. False Forest History, Complicit Social Analysis: Rethinking Some West African Environmental Narratives. 2. How Cattle Problematize the Nature-Culture Divide: From Evans-Pritchard?s ?Cattle Complex? to Harris? ?Sacred Cows? and Beyond (3) Evans-Pritchard, E. E. 1940. Interest in Cattle. Chapter 1 of: The Nuer: A Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People. (4) Harris, Marvin. 1966. The Cultural Ecology of India?s Sacred Cattle. II. ECOLOGY AND SOCIAL ORGANIZATION 1. Early Essays on Social Organization and Ecology: Mauss and Steward (5) Mauss, Marcel. 1979[1950]. Selections from: Seasonal Variations of the Eskimo: A Study in Social Morphology. (6) Steward, Julian H. 1955. The Great Basin Shoshonean Indians: An Example of a Family Level of Sociocultural Integration. 2. Beyond Steward: ?Ecosystems with Human Beings in Them? in Barth and Geertz (7) Barth, Fredrik. 1956. Ecologic Relationships of Ethnic Groups in Swat, North Pakistan. (8) Geertz, Clifford. 1972. The Wet and the Dry: Traditional Irrigation in Bali and Morocco. 3. ?Natural? Disasters and Social Order: Response and Revelation in Firth and Waddell (9) Firth, Raymond. 1959. Critical Pressures on Food Supply and Their Economic Effects. Chapter 3 of: Social Change in Tikopia: Re-Study of a Polynesian Community After a Generation. (10) Waddell, Eric. 1975. How the Enga Cope with Frost: Responses to Climatic Perturbations in the Central Highlands of New Guinea. III. METHODOLOGICAL CHALLENGES AND DEBATES 1. Ethno-Ecology and the Defense of Swidden Agriculture: Conklin and Carneiro (11) Conklin, Harold C. 1954. An Ethnoecological Approach to Shifting Agriculture. (12) Carneiro, Robert L. 1960. Slash-and-Burn Agriculture: A Closer Look at Its Implications for Settlement Patterns. 2. Natural Science Models of Resource-Use: From Rappaport?s Cybernetics to the Optimal Foraging of Hawkes, Hill, and O?Connell (13) Rappaport, Roy A. 1967. Ritual Regulation of Environmental Relations Among a New Guinea People. (14) Hawkes, Kristen, Kim Hill, and James F. O?Connell. 1982. Why Hunters Gather: Optimal Foraging and the Ache of Eastern Paraguay. 3. The Bounded and Balanced Community: Solway and Lee and Netting (15) Solway, Jacqueline S. and Richard B. Lee. 1992[1990]. Foragers, Genuine or Spurious?: Situating the Kalahari San in History. (16) Netting, Robert McC. 1990. Links and Boundaries: Reconsidering the Alpine Village as Ecosystem. IV. THE POLITICS OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND THE ENVIRONMENT 1. Indigeneity and Natural Resource Politics: Ellen and Li (17) Ellen, Roy. 1999. Forest Knowledge, Forest Transformation: Political Contingency, Historical Ecology and the Renegotiation of Nature in Central Seram. (18) Li, Tania M. 2000. Articulating Indigenous Identity in Indonesia: Resource Politics and the Tribal Slot. 2. Environmental Campaigns and Collaborations: Brosius and Tsing (19) Brosius, J. P. 1999. Green Dots, Pink Hearts: Displacing Politics from the Malaysian Rain Forest. (20) Tsing, Anna L. 1999. Becoming a Tribal Elder, and Other Green Development Fantasies. V. KNOWING THE ENVIRONMENT 1. Social Identity and Perception of the Landscape: Frake and Bloch (21) Bloch, Maurice. 1995. People into Places: Zafimaniry Concepts of Clarity. (22) Frake, Charles O. 1996. Pleasant Places, Past Times, and Sheltered Identity in Rural East Anglia. 2. The Limits of Knowledge and Its Implications for Understanding Environmental Relations: Bateson and Ingold (23) Bateson, Gregory. 1972. Steps to an Ecology of Mind. Effects of Conscious Purpose on Human Adaptation. (24) Ingold, Tim. 1993. Globes and Spheres: The Topology of Environmentalism.
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Human ecology -- Cross-cultural studies.