Against the Grain: The Vayda Tradition in Human Ecology and Ecological Anthropology - Tapa dura

Walters, Bradley B.

 
9780759111721: Against the Grain: The Vayda Tradition in Human Ecology and Ecological Anthropology

Sinopsis

To rise to the increasingly urgent challenge of understanding the relationship between human beings and the environment, scholars need to step back and re-evaluate their basic premises about how current explanations should shape the form and content of their research. Against the Grain addresses a variety of topics in the field of human ecology, including ecological anthropology, evolutionary psychology, environmental history, and geography, and challenges scholars to re-think the adequacy of their methods and assumptions. Andrew P. Vayda concludes the volume with a critical commentary on these issues and, more widely, on the subject of explanation. The result is an extremely useful and provocative précis for thinking about, re-evaluating, and rectifying scholarly research.

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Kenneth J. Long is political theorist and Professor of History and Political Science at the University of Saint Joseph in West Hartford, Connecticut.

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9780759111738: Against the Grain: The Vayda Tradition in Human Ecology and Ecological Anthropology

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ISBN 10:  0759111731 ISBN 13:  9780759111738
Editorial: AltaMira Press, 2008
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