Historical Ecology: Cultural Knowledge and Changing Landscapes (School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0933452853 ISBN 13: 9780933452855

Publisher: School for Advanced Research Press, 1994

Synopsis

Environmental change is one of the most pressing problems facing the world community. In this volume, the authors take a critical step toward establishing a new environmental science by deconstructing the traditional culture/nature dichotomy and placing human/environmental interaction at the center of any new attempts to deal with global environmental change. Topics include the theorization of ecology, evolutionary theory, evaluating the nature/culture binary in practice, global climate and regional diversity, historical transformations in the landscapes of eastern Africa, extinction in Greenland, ecology in ancient Egypt, ecological aspects of encounters between agropastoral and agricultural peoples, archaeology and environmentalism, and the role of history in ecological research.

About this title

About the Author:

Contributors are Carole L. Crumley, Joel D. Gunn, Fekri A. Hassan, Alice E. Ingerson, William H. Marquardt, Thomas H. McGovern, Thomas C. Patterson, Peter R. Schmidt, and Bruce M. Winterhalder.

Review:

Carole L. Crumley and her team of optimistic anthropologists have created a meaningful new approach to the study of humanity and the environment aimed in large part at policymakers... This highly useful volume ... should show aspiring anthropologists that their work can make a difference to the world as we approach the new millennium. --Thomas E. Levy, Current Anthropology Vol. 38, no. 1 (February 1997)

About this edition

• Publisher: School for Advanced Research Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0933452853
• ISBN 13: 9780933452855
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304
• Editor: Carole L. Crumley