Ecology is an attempt to understand the reciprocal relationship between living and non-living elements of the earth. For years, however, the discipline either neglected the human element entirely or presumed its effect on natural ecosystems to be invariably negative. Among social scientists, notably in geography and anthropology, efforts to address this human-environment interaction have generally been criticized as deterministic and mechanistic. Bridging the divide between social and natural sciences, the contributors to this book use a more holistic perspective to explore the relationships between humans and their environment. Exploring short- and long-term local and global change 18 specialists in anthropology, geography, history, ethnobiology, and related disciplines present new perpectives on historical ecology. A broad theoretical background on the material factors central to the field is presented, such as anthropogenic fire, soils, and pathogens. A series of regional applications of this knowledge base investigates landscape transformations over time in South America, the Mississippi Delta, the Great Basin, Thailand and India. The contributors focus on traditional societies where lands are most at risk from the incursions of complex, state-level societies. This book attempts to lay the groundwork for a more meaningful understanding of humankind's interaction with its biosphere.
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William L. Balée is professor of anthropology at Tulane University and author of Footprints of the Forest: Ka'apor Ethnobotany--The Historical Ecology of Plant Utilization by an Amazon People (Columbia).
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- Cultural Materialism: The Struggle for a Science of Culture by Marvin Harris in Front Matter, page 186, and page 399
- Europe and the People Without History: With a New Preface. by Eric Wolf in Front Matter, page 137, and page 312
- The Structure of Science: Problems in the Logic of Scientific Explanation (2nd edition) by Ernest Nagel on page 225, page 229, and Back Matter
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- Navigating Social-Ecological Systems: Building Resilience for Complexity and Change by Fikret Berkes on page 24, and page 77
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- Ecological Stewardship: A Common Reference for Ecosystem Management: Volume I: Key Findings & Volumes I - III CD ROM (v. 1) by N.C. Johnson on page 76
- Secret Judgements of God: Old World Disease in Colonial Spanish America (The Civilization of the American Indian Series) by Noble David Cook in Front Matter
- In Amazonia: A Natural History by Hugh Raffles in Back Matter
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