Against the Grain The Vayda Tradition in Human Ecology and Ecological Anthropology
by Walters, Bradley B.; McCay, Bonnie J.; West, Paige; Lees, Susan; Bart, David J.; Pierce Colfer, Carol J.; Dove, Michael; Driscoll, Catherine; Eghenter, Cristina; Haaland, Gunnar; Kuznar, Lawrence A.; Long, Kenneth J.; Maxwell, Keely; McGuire, Thomas R.; NWe're Sorry
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Summary
Author Biography
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments | p. ix |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Introductory Essays | |
An Intellectual History of Ecological Anthropology | p. 11 |
Maori Warfare: Prefiguring Contemporary Directions in Ecological Science | p. 27 |
Events, Causes, and Explanations | |
Explaining Causes in Evolving Contexts: From Nepali Hill Farmers to Business Managers in Thailand | p. 43 |
Events, Politics, and Environmental Change | p. 67 |
Orthodoxy and Revision in West African Guinea Savanna Ecology | p. 81 |
Looking for Cause with All the Small Changes: Using Event Ecology to Find Human Causes of Biological Invasions | p. 99 |
Shell Games on the Water Bottoms of Louisiana: Investigative Journalism and Anthropological Inquiry | p. 117 |
Process in an Eventful Environment | p. 135 |
A New Guinea Culture-Bound Syndrome Revisited: Vayda, Humility, and Monological Authority in Anthropology | p. 145 |
Deductive-nomological vs. Causal-mechanical Explanation: Relative Strengths and Weaknesses in Anthropological Explanation | p. 159 |
Vayda Blues: Explanation in Darwinian Ecological Anthropology | p. 175 |
Research on Environment and Development | |
What Kind of Anthropology for Successful Conservation Management and Development? | p. 195 |
Environmental Conservation and Social Life in Papua New Guinea | p. 207 |
The Concept of Human Agency in Contemporary Conservation and Development | p. 225 |
Using Progressive Contextualization to Understand a Rural Development Success Story in Indonesian Borneo | p. 255 |
From Understanding to Action: Building on Anthropological Approaches to Influence Policy Making | p. 273 |
The Relevant Context: Environmental Consequences of Images of the Future | p. 287 |
Indigenous Knowledge and In Situ Crop Germplasm Conservation | p. 307 |
Concluding Essay | |
Causal Explanation as a Research Goal: A Pragmatic View | p. 317 |
Index | p. 369 |
About the Contributors | p. 375 |
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