Explaining human actions and environmental changes
By: Andrew P. Vayda.
Publisher: Altamira Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780759103238; 9780759119000
Subjects: Human ecology; Human beings -- Effect of environment on; Ethnology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Causal explanation as a research goal : do's and don'ts; title: Both ends of the firestick : causal explanation of Indonesian forest fires; title: On knowing what not to know about knowing : a critical view of local knowledge studies / with B.B. Walters and I. Setyawati; title: Do we need an anthropological perspective on tropical deforestation?; title: Seeing nature's complexity but not people's; title: Against political ecology / with B.B. Walters; title: Failures of explanation in darwinian ecological anthropology; title: Concepts of process in social science explanations / with B.J. McCay and; title: Eghenter; title: Explaining why marings fought : different questions, different answers; title: The anthropology of war : polemics and confusion.