Vayda, Andrew Peter <br/><br/>
Explaining human actions and environmental changes  [electronic resource] / 
Andrew P. Vayda 
 - Lanham, MD :  AltaMira Press,  c2009 
 - 1 online resource (xii, 303 p.) :  ill. 
<br/><br/> Description based on print version record 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-289) and index 
<br/><br/>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 
<br/><br/><br/>Mode of access: Internet 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780759119000 (electronic bk.) 0759119007 (electronic bk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Human ecology<br/>Human beings--Effect of environment on<br/>Ethnology