Explaining human actions and environmental changes
Vayda, Andrew Peter
Explaining human actions and environmental changes [electronic resource] / Andrew P. Vayda - Lanham, MD : AltaMira Press, c2009 - 1 online resource (xii, 303 p.) : ill.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-289) and index
Causal explanation as a research goal : dos and don'ts -- Both ends of the firestick : causal explanation of Indonesian forest fires -- On knowing what not to know about knowing : a critical view of local knowledge studies / with Bradley B. Walters and Indah Setyawati -- Do we need an anthropological perspective on tropical deforestation? -- Seeing nature's complexity but not people's -- Against political ecology / with Bradley B. Walters -- Failures of explanation in Darwinian ecological anthropology -- Concepts of process in social science explanations / with Bonnie J. McCay and Cristina Eghenter -- Explaining why marings fought : different questions, different answers -- The anthropology of war : polemics and confusion
Mode of access: Internet
9780759119000 (electronic bk.) 0759119007 (electronic bk.)
Human ecology
Human beings--Effect of environment on
Ethnology
Explaining human actions and environmental changes [electronic resource] / Andrew P. Vayda - Lanham, MD : AltaMira Press, c2009 - 1 online resource (xii, 303 p.) : ill.
Description based on print version record
Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-289) and index
Causal explanation as a research goal : dos and don'ts -- Both ends of the firestick : causal explanation of Indonesian forest fires -- On knowing what not to know about knowing : a critical view of local knowledge studies / with Bradley B. Walters and Indah Setyawati -- Do we need an anthropological perspective on tropical deforestation? -- Seeing nature's complexity but not people's -- Against political ecology / with Bradley B. Walters -- Failures of explanation in Darwinian ecological anthropology -- Concepts of process in social science explanations / with Bonnie J. McCay and Cristina Eghenter -- Explaining why marings fought : different questions, different answers -- The anthropology of war : polemics and confusion
Mode of access: Internet
9780759119000 (electronic bk.) 0759119007 (electronic bk.)
Human ecology
Human beings--Effect of environment on
Ethnology