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Human Adaptive Strategies: Ecology, Culture, and Politics, 2/E
Daniel G. Bates, Hunter College, City University of New York and Istanbul Bilgi University

ISBN-10: 0205327680
ISBN-13: 9780205327683

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2001
Format: Paper; 238 pp
Status: Out of Print

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Based on Bates' Cultural Anthropology, this text provides a framework for analyzing cultures based on their economic systems.

Cultural ecology is the study of human behavior and culture within an environmental context. It examines how humans adapt to their environment and how the environment shapes culture. Based on a selection of materials from Bates' and Fratkin's Cultural Anthropology, Second Edition , Human Adaptive Strategies uses case studies to show how cultures evolved within the context of their environment and how their methods of surviving in their environment have affected other aspects of their culture. One reviewer says, “Concentrating, as the book does, on subsistence patterns and cultural ecology, it creates a conceptual structure conducive to the needs of the introductory student in anthropology.”

  • Looks at human behavior and material environments cross-culturally.
  • Includes five chapters that focus on ethnographic case studies and discussion relating to specific forms of human food procurement or subsistence (Chs. 3-7).
  • Retains the central theme that human beings are active decision makers, continually involved in creating and using their cultural and material environments.
  • Takes an ecological and evolutionary approach.
  • Shows how people will often attempt to find solutions that go beyond traditional cultural solutions or customary behaviors when faced with new problems and new situations.
  • Explores the emerging field of political ecology and stresses the importance of gender.
  • Concludes with suggestions for risk assessment as we plan for the future.

  • Breaks up the previous edition's chapter on Intensive and Industrial Agriculture into two chapters on Intensive Agriculture and Industrial Society (Chs. 6 and 7).
  • Adds more historical depth in a new historical case study of the Pueblos (Ch. 4).
  • Presents more information within the text, and less in boxed features — now includes only two boxes per chapter.
  • Refocuses Chapter 4 entirely on garden subsistence farming.
  • Contains more than 100 new sources and references.

All chapters conclude with “Summary,” “Key Terms,” and “Suggested Readings.”

1.The Study of Human Behavior.

The Nature of Scientific Inquiry

Cultural Relativism.

The Science of Anthropology.

Aspects of Culture.

Behavior, Language, and Learning.



2.Evolution, Ecology, and Politics.

The Human Evolutionary Legacy.

Human Ecology.

The Evolution of Procurement Systems.

Adapting to Environmental Problems.

Political Ecology.



3.Foraging.

Box 3.1: Who Speaks for Whom?

The Organization of Energy.

Social Organization.

Settlement Patterns and Mobility.

Resilience, Stability, and Change.

The Dobe Ju/'hoansi.

The Inuit or Eskimo.

The Batak Foragers of the Philippines.



4.Horticulture: Feeding the Household.

The Horticultural Adaptation.

The Yanamamö.

The Pueblo of North America.



5.Nomadic Pastoralism.

The Pastoral Adaptation.

Social Organization.

The Ariaal of Northern Kenya.

The Yörük of Turkey.

Al-Murra of Saudi Arabia.



6.Intensive Agriculture: Feeding the Cities.

The Development of Intensive Agriculture.

The Social Consequences of Intensive Agriculture.

The Tamang of Nepal.

Where the Dove Calls: The Mexican Village of Cucurpe.

The Kofyar of Central Nigeria.

Directions of Change in Rural Egypt.



7.Industrial Society: Feeding the World.

Box 7.1: The Emerging Fourth World in the New Millennium.

From Intensive Agriculture to Industrialized Farming.

Village Becomes Suburb: Shinohata, Japan.

Urbanized Rural Society: Farming in the United States.

The Rise and Fall of Collective Agriculture in Bulgaria.



8.Change and Development: The Challenges of Globalism.

Adaptation and Processes of Cultural Transformation.

Beyond Industrialism.

The Ecological Consequences of Post-industrialism.

Can We Survive Progress?

Sahel Visions.

The Ethics of Development Work.

    Based on Bates' Cultural Anthropology, this text provides a framework for analyzing cultures based on their ecological systems.

    Cultural ecology is the study of human behavior and culture within an environmental context. It examines how humans adapt to their environment and how the environment shapes culture. Based on a selection of materials from Bates and Fratkin's Cultural Anthropology, Third Edition, Human Adaptive Strategies uses case studies to show how cultures evolved within the context of their environment and how their methods of surviving in their environment have affected other aspects of their culture. One reviewer says, “Concentrating, as the book does, on subsistence patterns and cultural ecology, it creates a conceptual structure conducive to the needs of the introductory student in anthropology.”

     
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    Bates
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