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Télécharger le livre :  Respect and Responsibility in Pacific Coast Indigenous Nations
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Respect and Responsibility in Pacific Coast Indigenous Nations


E. N. Anderson , Raymond Pierotti


This book examines ways of conserving, managing, and interacting with plant and animal resources by Native American cultural groups of the Pacific Coast of North America, from Alaska to California. These practices helped them maintain and restore ecological balance for...

Parution : 2022-10-12
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Télécharger le livre :  The Dynamics of Cultural Evolution
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The Dynamics of Cultural Evolution


Michael Rosenberg


This book explores the nature of cultural and culturally structured social and behavioral entities, their evolutionary interactions, and the central role purposive behaviors play in those interactions. It, first, makes the case for cultural and cultural structured...

Parution : 2022-07-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Global Perspectives on Long Term Community Resource Management
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Global Perspectives on Long Term Community Resource Management


Ludomir R. Lozny , Thomas H. Mcgovern


Communal-level resource management successes and failures comprise complex interactions that involve local, regional, and (increasingly) global scale political, economic, and environmental changes, shown to have recurring patterns and trajectories. The human past...

Parution : 2019-06-21
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Télécharger le livre :  Pastures of Change
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Pastures of Change


Gillian G. Tan


This book offers a novel examination of socio-environmental change in a nomadic pastoralist area of the eastern Tibetan plateau. Drawing on long-term fieldwork that underscores an ethnography of local nomadic pastoralists, international development organisations, and...

Parution : 2018-04-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Lithic Technological Organization and Paleoenvironmental Change
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Lithic Technological Organization and Paleoenvironmental Change


Erick Robinson , Frédéric Sellet


The objective of this edited volume is to bring together a diverse set of analyses to document how small-scale societies responded to paleoenvironmental change based on the evidence of their lithic technologies.The contributions bring together an international forum for...

Parution : 2017-11-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Feast, Famine or Fighting?
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Feast, Famine or Fighting?


Richard J. Chacon , Rubén G. Mendoza


The advent of social complexity has been a longstanding debate among social scientists. Existing theories and approaches involving the origins of social complexity include environmental circumscription, population growth, technology transfers, prestige-based...

Parution : 2017-01-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Continuity and Change in Cultural Adaptation to Mountain Environments
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Continuity and Change in Cultural Adaptation to Mountain Environments


Ludomir R Lozny


Up until now, mountain ecosystems have not been closely studies by social scientists as they do not offer a readily defined set of problems for human exploitation as, do for instance, tropical forests or arctic habitats. But the archaeological evidence had shown that...

Parution : 2013-03-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Energy, Policy, and the Environment
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Energy, Policy, and the Environment


Marja Järvelä , Sirkku Juhola


This book sets the questions of energy and the environment in the North in the global context and further addresses  historical developments, views on energy taxation and tariffs, and effects of EU energy policy. Climate change appears more frequently than ever on the...

Parution : 2011-09-01
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Télécharger le livre :  African Landscapes
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African Landscapes


Michael Bollig , Olaf Bubenzer


Landscape studies provide a crucial perspective into the interaction between humans and their environment, shedding insight on social, cultural, and economic topics. The research explores both the way that natural processes have affected the development of culture and...

Parution : 2009-06-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Staying Maasai?
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Staying Maasai?


Katherine Homewood , Patti Kristjanson , P. Trench


The area of eastern Africa, which includes Tanzania and Kenya, is known for its savannas, wildlife and tribal peoples. Alongside these iconic images lie concerns about environmental degradation, declining wildlife populations, and about worsening poverty of pastoral...

Parution : 2009-02-08
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Seeking a Richer Harvest


Christopher T Fisher , Tina Thurston


Subsistence intensification, innovation and change have long figured prominently in explanations for the development of social complexity among foragers and horticulturalists, and the rise of chiefly societies and archaic states, yet there is considerable debate over...

Parution : 2006-11-25
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Télécharger le livre :  As Pastoralists Settle
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As Pastoralists Settle


Elliot Fratkin , Eric Abella Roth


The Social, Health, and Economic Consequences of Pastoral Sedentarization in Marsabit District, Northern Kenya ERICABELLA ROTH AND ELLIOT FRATKIN 1. INTRODUCTION Formerly nomadic livestock-keeping pastoralists have settled in many regions of the world in the past...

Parution : 2006-03-30
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