The Ecosystem Concept In Anthropology (Paperback)

About the Series -- Preface -- Assessment of Past and Present Approaches -- Limitations and Advances in Ecosystems Research -- Historical Origins of the Ecosystem Concept in Biology -- Anthropology, Evolutionary Ecology, and the Explanatory Limitations of the Ecosystem Concept -- The Ecosystem Concept in Archaeology -- Human Biology and the Development of an Ecosystem Approach -- Environmental Events and the Ecology of Cumulative Change -- New Directions in Resolving the Problem of Time and of Boundary Definition in Ecosystems -- Trade, Environment, and the Reproduction of Local Systems in the Moluccas -- Ecosystems over Time: The Study of Migration in “Long Run” Perspective -- Reflections on an Alpine Village as Ecosystem -- New Directions in Resolving the Problems of Hierarchical Level, Scale, and Data Collection -- Remote Sensing, Discovery, and Generalizations in Human Ecology -- Ecosystems and Methodological Problems in Ecological Anthropology -- The Problem of Analytical Level Shifting in Amazonian Ecosystem Research -- Ecosystems, Environmentalism, Resource Conservation, and Anthropological Research