The ecological transition : cultural anthropology and human adaptation

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Front Cover; The Ecological Transition: Cultural Anthropology and Human Adaptation; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; The Author; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER 1. Prologue: Images of Man and Nature; NATURE INTO CULTURE; THE ECOLOGICAL TRANSITION AND ITS IMAGERY; NOTES; CHAPTER 2. Culture, Ecology, and Social Policy; SOCIETY AS ENVIRONMENT; SYSTEMS; SOCIETY AS ENVIRONMENT (continued); CULTURE AND ECOLOGY; RELEVANCE AND POLICY; RELEVANCE AND CULTURAL ECOLOGY; NOTES; CHAPTER 3. Human Ecology and Cultural Ecology; THE PARADIGM; ENERGY TRANSFORMATION; THE CONCEPT OF FEEDBACK; THE FEEDBACK LOOPS. SOME FURTHER IMPLICATIONS OF FIG. 1DIVISION OF PROFESSIONAL LABOR; NOTES; CHAPTER 4. System, Ecosystem, and Social System; SYSTEMS AND SELF-REGULATION; THE ADAPTIVE SYSTEM; PLANT ECOSYSTEMS AND HUMAN ECOLOGY; BEHAVIORAL ADAPTATION AS SYSTEMIC; INSTITUTIONAL PROCESS MODELS; THE SOCIONATURAL SYSTEM; LARGE-SCALE SYSTEMIC PROCESSES: THE DEMOGRAPHIC AND MOBILITY TRANSITIONS; NOTES; CHAPTER 5. The Ecological Transition: From Equilibrium to Disequilibrium; THE ECOLOGICAL TRANSITION AS MATERIAL AND DEMOGRAPHIC EVOLUTION; THE PROBLEM OF STAGNATION; THE ECOLOGICAL TRANSITION AS A PROBLEM OF EQUILIBRIUM. THE CASE OF JAPANCHANGE; NOTES; CHAPTER 6. Culture and Ecology: The Use of Biological Concepts; INTRODUCTION TO CHAPTERS 6 AND 7; BIOLOGICAL CONCEPTS AND SOCIAL DATA; ECOLOGICAL NICHES; PIGS, RITUAL, AND ECOLOGICAL CONTROL; ECOLOGICAL CONTROL AND HOMEOSTASIS IN SIMPLER SOCIETIES; BIOLOGY AND CULTURE IN RELATIONSHIP; NOTES; CHAPTER 7. Culture and Ecology: Culture as the Master Variable; KROEBER'S VERSION OF POSSIBILISM; JULIAN STEWARD'S ""CULTURAL ECOLOGY""; SOME OTHER APPROACHES; MONOGRAPHIC CULTURAL ECOLOGY; CULTURAL ECOLOGY AND PREHISTORY; POPULATION, RESOURCES, AND ENVIRONMENT. HARRIS' ""CULTURAL MATERIALISM""EPILOGUE TO CHAPTER 7; NOTES; CHAPTER 8. Adaptation and Human Behavior; THE CONCEPT OF ADAPTATION; THE ROOTS OF ADAPTATION; SYSTEMS AND ADAPTIVE DYNAMICS; RECAPITULATION; NOTES; CHAPTER 9. Adaptation as Social Process; ADAPTATION AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORY; ADAPTIVE DYNAMICS; TRANSACTIONS AND NETWORKS; SOME ADAPTIVE PROCESSES; THE ALLOCATION OF RESOURCES; THE PROBLEM OF REGULATION OF RESOURCE USE; ADAPTATION AND MALADAPTATION; NOTES; CHAPTER 10. Epilogue: Ecology, Culture, and Anthropology; References; Index