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Explaining human actions and environmental changes [electronic resource] / Andrew P. Vayda

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lanham, MD : AltaMira Press, c2009Description: 1 online resource (xii, 303 p.) : illISBN:
  • 9780759119000 (electronic bk.)
  • 0759119007 (electronic bk.)
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Contents:
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
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E-book E-book UMPLIB GAMBANG GF51 .V39 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Not for loan 0000056885

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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

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