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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Page 210
... Iban villages . It seems to have been more common and more characteristic , however , for members of one Iban tribe to fight either against members of other Iban tribes or against non - Ibans . Freeman ( 1955a : 53 ) has recently ...
... Iban villages . It seems to have been more common and more characteristic , however , for members of one Iban tribe to fight either against members of other Iban tribes or against non - Ibans . Freeman ( 1955a : 53 ) has recently ...
Page 211
... Iban long - houses can lose members , female as well as male , both through their marriage into other families and through their departure to set up their own autonomous domestic units . It should be remarked also that the incentives of ...
... Iban long - houses can lose members , female as well as male , both through their marriage into other families and through their departure to set up their own autonomous domestic units . It should be remarked also that the incentives of ...
Page 214
... Iban case is instructive because it shows the warlike extension of territory as a means whereby a group can avoid experiencing any very great privations due to the pressure of population upon available resources . Iban men , in their ...
... Iban case is instructive because it shows the warlike extension of territory as a means whereby a group can avoid experiencing any very great privations due to the pressure of population upon available resources . Iban men , in their ...
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