Andrew P. Vayda

Explaining Human Actions and Environmental Changes

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this selection of essays from the past two decades, Vayda focuses on research and explanation concerned with causes of concrete events, especially human actions and the environmental changes brought about by them.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Altamira Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780759103238
• ISBN-10: 0759103232
• Artikelnr.: 26057061

Autorenporträt

By Andrew P. Vayda

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Chapter 1. Causal Explanation as a Research
Goal: Do's and Don'ts Chapter 3 Chapter 2. Both Ends of the Firestick:
Causal Explanation of Indonesian Forest Fires Chapter 4 Chapter 3. On
Knowing What Not to Know about Knowing: A Critical View of Local Knowledge
Studies Chapter 5 Chapter 4. Do We Need an Anthropological Perspective on
Tropical Deforestation? Chapter 6 Chapter 5. Seeing Nature's Complexity but
Not People's Chapter 7 Chapter 6. Against Political Ecology Chapter 8
Chapter 7. Failures of Explanation in Darwinian Ecological Anthropology
Chapter 9 Chapter 8. Concepts of Process in Social Science Explanations
Chapter 10 Chapter 9. Explaining Why Marings Fought: Different Questions,
Different Answers Chapter 11 Chapter 10. The Anthropology of War: Polemics
and Confusion