| Record Type: |
Language materials, printed
: Monograph/item
|
| Title/Author: |
Explaining human actions and environmental changes // Andrew P. Vayda. |
| Author: |
Vayda, Andrew Peter. |
| Published: |
Lanham, MD :Altamira Press, : c2009., |
| Description: |
xii, 303 p. ;24 cm. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
Causal explanation as a research goal : do's and don'ts -- Both ends of the firestick : causal explanation of Indonesian forest fires -- On knowing what not to know about knowing : a critical view of local knowledge studies / with B.B. Walters and I. Setyawati -- Do we need an anthropological perspective on tropical deforestation? -- Seeing nature's complexity but not people's -- Against political ecology / with B.B. Walters -- Failures of explanation in darwinian ecological anthropology -- Concepts of process in social science explanations / with B.J. McCay and -- Eghenter -- Explaining why marings fought : different questions, different answers -- The anthropology of war : polemics and confusion. |
| Subject: |
Human ecology. - |
| ISBN: |
9780759103238 (hbk.) |