Author: Vayda, Andrew Peter ; compiler:
Title: Environment and Cultural Behavior: Environment and Cultural Behavior : Ecological Studies in Cultural Anthropology
Description: Garden City [NY], Natural History Press, 1969. orig.cloth, dustwrapper.. 22x15cm, xvi, 485 pp, In a rubbed, torn and stained dustwrapper.. Textual maps & illustrations. Rubbed. Top page-edge soiled. Small stain to spine. Good. ¶ Series: American Museum Sourcebooks in Anthropology. Contains 23 papers. Includes: Two Types of Ecosystems; An Approach to Bioenergetics of Rural West Bengal; Kung Bushman Subsistence: An Input-Output Analysis; Ecology and Adaptation to Parasitic Diseases; Cultural and Natural Checks on Population Growth; Divination- A New Perspective; The Potlatch System of the Southern Kwakiult: A New Perspective; Camel Pastoralism in North Arabia and the Minimal Camping Unit; Ritual Regulation of Environmental Relations Among a New Guinea People; Expansion and Warfare among Swidden Agriculturalists; An Ethnoecological Approach to Shifting Agriculture; Man Against His Environment: A Game Theoretic Framework; Computers and the Evaluation of Resource Management Strategies; Cultural Influences on Population: A Comparison of Two Tupí Tribes; The Ecology of Early Food Production in Mesopotamia; Sickle -Cell Trait in Human Biological and Cultural Evolution; Swidden Agriculture and the Rise of Maya Civilization; Relations of Environmental and Cultural Factors; Ecological Relationships of Ethnic Groups in Swat, North Pakistan; Ecological Determinanants of Chieftainship Among the Yaruro Indians of venezuela; Land Use and the Extended Family in Moala, Fiji; Effects of Climate on Certain Cultural Practices; The Ecosystem Concept and the Problem of Air Pollution.

Keywords: Environmental Anthropology, Ethnology, Human Ecology, Ethnography, Cultural, Ecological, Environment, ,