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| Genre/Form: | Congresses |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Against the grain. Lanham, MD : AltaMira Press, c2008 (OCoLC)608467667 Online version: Against the grain. Lanham, MD : AltaMira Press, c2008 (OCoLC)609245506 |
| Named Person: | Andrew Peter Vayda |
| Material Type: | Conference publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Bradley B Walters; American Anthropological Association. Meeting; et al |
| ISBN: | 9780759111721 0759111723 9780759111738 0759111731 |
| OCLC Number: | 181328207 |
| Notes: | Chiefly papers presented in 2003 at a special session of the American Anthropological Association held in Chicago, Illinois. |
| Description: | ix, 382 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | An intellectual history of ecological anthropology / Bonnie J. McCay -- Maori warfare : prefiguring contemporary directions in ecological science / Richard Scaglion -- Explaining causes in evolving contexts : from Nepali hill farmers to business managers in Thailand / Gunnar Haaland -- Events, politics, and environmental change / Bradley B. Walters -- Orthodoxy and revision in West African Guinea savanna ecology / A. Endre Nyerges -- Looking for cause with all the small changes : using event ecology to find human causes of biological invasions / David J. Bart -- Shell games on the water bottoms of Louisiana : investigative journalism and anthropological inquiry / Thomas R. McGuire -- Process in an eventful environment / Christine Padoch, Miguel Pinedo-Vasquez and Andrew Roberts -- A New Guinea culture-bound syndrome revisited : Vayda, humility, and monological authority in anthropology / Paul Roscoe -- Deductive-nomological vs. causal-mechanical explanation : relative strengths and weaknesses in anthropological explanation / Lawrence A. Kuznar and Kenneth Long -- Vayda blues : explanation in Darwinian ecological anthropology / Catherine Driscoll and Stephen Stich -- What kind of anthropology for successful conservation management and development? / Cristina Eghenter -- Environmental conservation and social life in Papua New Guinea / Paige West -- The concept of human agency in contemporary conservation and development / Michael R. Dove ... [et al.] -- Using progressive contextualization to understand a rural development success story in Indonesian Borneo / Patricia J. Vondal -- From understanding to action : building on anthropological approaches to influence policy making / Carol J. Pierce Colfer -- The relevant context : environmental consequences of images of the future / Gerard A. Persoon and Padmapani L. Perez -- Indigenous knowledge and in situ crop germplasm conservation / Indah Setyawati -- Causal explanation as a research goal : a pragmatic view / Andrew P. Vayda. |
| Responsibility: | [edited by] Bradley B. Walters ... [et al.]. |
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In a world of enormous socio-environmental complexity, perhaps the most laudable intellectual position is one of rigorous humility. The works in this volume are compelling tributes to such an approach, providing sober, meticulous, and powerful explanations, all of which urge against over-simple generalization and a priori assumptions, which too often blur our understanding of the environmental changes around us. The Vayda tradition is alive and well, and we would all do well to heed its lessons.--Robbins, Paul Read more...
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