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Social and ecological systems / edited by P.C. Burnham and R.F. Ellen

Social and ecological systems / edited by P.C. Burnham and R.F. Ellen

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Social and ecological systems / edited by P.C. Burnham and R.F. Ellen

by Burnham, Philip C

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London ; New York : Academic Press, 1979. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: viii, 314 pages: illustrations; 24 cm. Notes: Papers from the 1978 conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists, organized jointly with the Social Science Research Council and held at Newnham College, Cambridge. Contents: A tale of two states: ecology and the political economy of inequality on the island of Roti / James J. Fox -- Sago subsistence and the trade in spices: a provisional model of ecological succession and imbalance in Moluccan history / Roy F. Ellen -- Foragers and farmers in the western Torres Strait Islands: an historical analysis of economic, demographic, and spatial differentiation / David R. Harris -- Territorial adaptations among desert hunter-gatherers: the!Kung and Australians compared / Nicolas Peterson -- Kalahari Bushman settlement patterns / Alan Barnard -- Ecological variation on the Northwest Coast: models for the generation of cognatic and matrilineal descent / David Riches -- Ecological stability and intensive fish production: the case of the Libinza people of the middle Ngiri (Zaire) / Pierre Van Leynseele -- Permissive ecology and structural conservatism in Gbaya society / Philip Burnham -- Pastoral production, territorial organisation and kinship in segmentary lineage societies / Pierre Bonte -- Change and the boundaries of systems in highland New Guinea: the Chimbu / Paula Brown -- Hegelian ecology: between Rousseau and the world spirit / Jonathan Friedman -- The social and ecological relations of culture-bearing organisms: an essay in evolutionary dynamics / Tim Ingold. Subjects: Conference. Social and ecological systems (1978: Cambridge). Human beings Effect of environment on; Congresses. Ethnology; Congresses. Human ecology; Cross-cultural studies. Man Influence of environment Case studies. Genre: Bibliography. Conference papers and proceedings.

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Title
Social and ecological systems / edited by P.C. Burnham and R.F. Ellen
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Burnham, Philip C
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Hardcover
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1st edition
ISBN 10
0121460509
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9780121460501
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London ; New York : Academic Press
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London
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1979

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