Title: Cultural adaptation to mountain environments /
Authors: Beaver, Patricia D.; Purrington, Burton L.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press,
Year: 1984
Subjects: Environment; Culture; Anthropology, Cultural; Altitude; Acclimatization; Mountain people Congresses.; Human beings Effect of environment on Congresses; Appalachian Region; Appalachian Region, Southern Social life and customs Congresses.
Contents: The context of cultural ecology in highland environments / Burton L. Purrington -- Agro-pastoral land use and the tragedy of the commons in the central Andes / David W. Guillet -- Mountain refuge area adaptations / Christopher Boehm -- Education and social mobility : some parallels between Appalachia and the Alps / John Friedl -- Industrialization, class, and regional consciousness in two highland societies : Wales and Appalachia / Helen M. Lewis -- Appalachian cultural adaptations : an overview / Patricia D. Beaver -- The sacrifice of nature : a study in the social product of consciousness / Allen Batteau -- Snowbird Cherokees : adaptation and ethnic preservation in the southern Appalachians / Sharlotte Neely -- Religion and place in southern Appalachia / Richard Humphrey -- Land ownership, power, and powerlessness in the Appalachian highlands / John Gaventa -- The anthropology of highland peoples / Stephen B. Brush -- Reflections on mountain adaptations / Gilbert Kushner.