Anthropology

Based on Bates' Cultural Anthropology, this text provides a framework for analyzing cultures based on their economic systems.

Cultural ecology is the study of human behavior and culture within an environmental context. It examines how humans adapt to their environment and how the environment shapes culture. Based on a selection of materials from Bates' and Fratkin's Cultural Anthropology, Second Edition , Human Adaptive Strategies uses case studies to show how cultures evolved within the context of their environment and how their methods of surviving in their environment have affected other aspects of their culture. One reviewer says, “Concentrating, as the book does, on subsistence patterns and cultural ecology, it creates a conceptual structure conducive to the needs of the introductory student in anthropology.”

• Looks at human behavior and material environments cross-culturally.

• Includes five chapters that focus on ethnographic case studies and discussion relating to specific forms of human food procurement or subsistence (Chs. 3-7).

• Retains the central theme that human beings are active decision makers, continually involved in creating and using their cultural and material environments.

• Takes an ecological and evolutionary approach.

• Shows how people will often attempt to find solutions that go beyond traditional cultural solutions or customary behaviors when faced with new problems and new situations.

• Explores the emerging field of political ecology and stresses the importance of gender.

• Concludes with suggestions for risk assessment as we plan for the future.

• Breaks up the previous edition's chapter on Intensive and Industrial Agriculture into two chapters on Intensive Agriculture and Industrial Society (Chs. 6 and 7).

• Adds more historical depth in a new historical case study of the Pueblos (Ch. 4).

• Presents more information within the text, and less in boxed features — now includes only two boxes per chapter.

• Refocuses Chapter 4 entirely on garden subsistence farming.

• Contains more than 100 new sources and references.

All chapters conclude with “Summary,” “Key Terms,” and “Suggested Readings.”

1.The Study of Human Behavior.

Global Issues / Contemporary Problems  (Anthropology)
Global Issues / Contemporary Problems  (Anthropology)
Cultural Ecology  (Anthropology)
Applied Anthropology  (Anthropology)
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology  [SUPPLEMENTAL PRODUCTS]   (Anthropology)
Introduction to Applied Anthropology  (Anthropology)

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  Human Adaptive Strategies: Ecology, Culture, and Politics, 3/E
  Bates
  ©2005 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 272 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205418155 | ISBN-13: 9780205418152
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  Based on Bates' Cultural Anthropology, this text provides a framework for analyzing cultures based on their ecological systems.

  Cultural ecology is the study of human behavior and culture within an environmental context. It examines how humans adapt to their environment and how the environment shapes culture. Based on a selection of materials from Bates and Fratkin's Cultural Anthropology, Third Edition, Human Adaptive Strategies uses case studies to show how cultures evolved within the context of their environment and how their methods of surviving in their environment have affected other aspects of their culture. One reviewer says, “Concentrating, as the book does, on subsistence patterns and cultural ecology, it creates a conceptual structure conducive to the needs of the introductory student in anthropology.”

   

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©2005 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 64 pp | Instock
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