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| List of Figures and Tables | |
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| Editors' Biographical Notes | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Text Credits | |
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| Introduction: Major Historical Currents in Environmental Anthropology | |
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| The Nature-Culture Dichotomy | |
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| Questioning the nature-culture dichotomy: From Posey's indigenous knowledge to Fairhead and Leach's politics of knowledge | |
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| Indigenous Management of Tropical Forest Ecosystems: The Case of the Kayapo Indians of the Brazilian Amazon | |
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| False Forest History, Complicit Social Analysis: Rethinking Some West African Environmental Narratives | |
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| How cattle problematize the nature-culture divide: From Evans-Pritchard's "cattle complex" to Harris' "sacred cows" and beyond | |
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| Interest in Cattle | |
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| The Cultural Ecology of India's Sacred Cattle | |
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| Ecology and Social Organization | |
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| Early essays on social organization and ecology: Mauss and Steward | |
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| Seasonal Variations of the Eskimo: A Study in Social Morphology | |
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| The Great Basin Shoshonean Indians: An Example of a Family Level of Sociocultural Integration | |
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| Beyond Steward: "Ecosystems with human beings in them" in Barth and Geertz | |
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| Ecologic Relationships of Ethnic Groups in Swat, North Pakistan | |
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| The Wet and the Dry: Traditional Irrigation in Bali and Morocco | |
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| "Natural" disasters and social order: Response and revelation in Firth and Waddell | |
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| Critical Pressures on Food Supply and their Economic Effects | |
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| How the Enga Cope with Frost: Responses to Climatic Perturbations in the Central Highlands of New Guinea | |
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| Methodological Challenges and Debates | |
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| Ethnoecology and the defense of swidden agriculture: Conklin and Carneiro | |
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| An Ethnoecological Approach to Shifting Agriculture | |
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| Slash-and-Burn Agriculture: A Closer Look at its Implications for Settlement Patterns | |
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| Natural science models of resource-use: From Rappaport's cybernetics to the optimal foraging of Hawkes, Hill, and O'Connell | |
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| Ritual Regulation of Environmental Relations among a New Guinea People | |
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| Why Hunters Gather: Optimal Foraging and the Ache of Eastern Paraguay | |
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| The bounded and balanced community: Solway and Lee, and Netting | |
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| Foragers, Genuine or Spurious?: Situating the Kalahari San in History | |
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| Links and Boundaries: Reconsidering the Alpine Village as Ecosystem | |
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| The Politics of Natural Resources and the Environment | |
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| Indigeneity and natural resource politics: Ellen and Li | |
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| Forest Knowledge, Forest Transformation: Political Contingency, Historical Ecology, and the Renegotiation of Nature in Central Seram | |
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| Articulating Indigenous Identity in Indonesia: Resource Politics and the Tribal Slot | |
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| Environmental campaigns and collaborations: Brosius and Tsing | |
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| Green Dots, Pink Hearts: Displacing Politics from the Malaysian Rain Forest | |
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| Becoming a Tribal Elder, and Other Green Development Fantasies | |
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| Knowing the Environment | |
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| Social identity and perception of the landscape: Frake and Bloch | |
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| People into Places: Zafimaniry Concepts of Clarity | |
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| Pleasant Places, Past Times, and Sheltered Identity in Rural East Anglia | |
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| The limits of knowledge and its implications for understanding environmental relations: Bateson and Ingold | |
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| Effects of Conscious Purpose on Human Adaptation | |
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| Globes and Spheres: The Topology of Environmentalism | |
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| Index of Subjects | |
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| Index of Names | |