Environment and Cultural Behavior: Ecological Studies in Cultural Anthropology"This anthology deals with human ecology-- the relationship between man and his environment. In it the editor brings together the most exciting new studies by anthropologists to have been written in the past few years, some of which appear here for the first time. From second-millennium agriculture to twentieth-century air pollution, this volume includes a unique variety of studies of man and the world around him."--Back cover. |
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of Rural West Bengal | 29 |
F ROY A RAPPAPORT Ritual Regulation of Environmental | 181 |
HAROLD C CONKLIN An Ethnoecological Approach | 221 |
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