Title: Environment and cultural behavior :
Authors: Vayda, Andrew Peter,
Date: 1977
Publisher: University of Texas Press,
Physical description: xvi, 485 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: G
Contents: Two types of ecosystems / Clifford Geertz -- An approach to the bioenergetics of rural west Bengal / Dwain W. Parrack --!Kung bushman subsistence : an input-output analysis / Richard B. Lee -- Ecology and adaptation to parasitic diseases / Alexander Alland, Jr. -- Cultural and natural checks on population growth / D.H. Stott -- Divination : a new perspective / Omar Khayyam Moore -- The potlatch system of the southern Kwakiutl : a new perspective / Stuart Piddocke -- Camel pastoralism in north Arabia and the minimal camping unit / Louise E. Sweet -- Ritual regulation of environmental relations among a New Guinea people / Roy A. Rappaport -- Expansion and warfare among Swidden agriculturalists / Andrew P. Vayda -- An ethnoecological approach to shifting agriculture / Harold C. Conklin -- Man against his environment : a game theoretic framework / Peter R. Gould -- Computers and the evaluation of resource management strategies / Kenneth E.F. Watt -- Cultural influences on population : a comparison of two Tupí tribes / Charles Wagley -- The ecology of early food production in Mesopotamia / Kent V. Flannery -- Sickle-cell trait in human biological and cultural evoluation / Stephen L. Wiesenfeld -- Swidden agriculture and the rise of Maya civilization / D.E. Dumond -- Relations of environmental and cultural factors / Alfred L. Kroeber -- Ecologic relationships of ethnic groups in Swat, North Pakistan / Fredrik Barth -- Ecological determinants of chieftainship among the Yaruro Indians of Venezuela / Anthony Leeds -- Land use and the extended family in Moala, Fiji / Marshall D. Sahlins -- Effects of climate on certain cultural practices / John W.M. Whiting -- The ecosystem concept and the problem of air pollution / Otis Dudley Duncan.
Notes: Reprint of the ed. published for the American Museum of Natural History by the Natural History Press, Garden City, N.Y., in series: American Museum sourcebooks in anthropology. Issued with various printing dates.
Subject headings (LCSH): Ethnology.; Human beings--Effect of environment on.; Human ecology.