Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 131 pages
- Published by: Waveland Press
- Edition: 2nd Edition January 1986
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0881332046
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0881332049
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Book Dimensions:
8.3 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
- Weighs: 5.6 ounces
Product Description
This short, versatile book clearly and concisely illustrates the central concepts and general principles of cultural ecology. It introduces readers to the topic of ecological anthropology by presenting illustrative ethnographic cases of hunter-gatherer, pastoralist, and agricultural societies. This treatment includes information on human-environment intervention, especially in the sections of East African pastoralism and peasant cultivation in Switzerland.
Publisher Description
Titles of related interest from Waveland Press: Rappaport, Pigs for the Ancestors: Ritual in the Ecology of a New Guinea People, Second Edition (ISBN 9781577661016) and Townsend, Environmental Anthropology: From Pigs to Policies, Second Edition (ISBN 9781577665816).