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Explaining human actions and environmental changes
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- Creator
- Andrew P. Vayda
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Lanham, MD : AltaMira Press, [2009]
- ©2009
- Physical Details
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- xii, 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780759103238, 0759103232, 9780759119000, 0759119007
- OCLC
- ocn297222792
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-289) and index.
- Causal explanation as a research goal : dos and don'ts -- Both ends of the firestick : causal explanation of Indonesian forest fires -- On knowing what not to know about knowing : a critical view of local knowledge studies / with Bradley B. Walters and Indah Setyawati -- Do we need an anthropological perspective on tropical deforestation? -- Seeing nature's complexity but not people's -- Against political ecology / with Bradley B. Walters -- Failures of explanation in Darwinian ecological anthropology -- Concepts of process in social science explanations / with Bonnie J. McCay and Cristina Eghenter -- Explaining why marings fought : different questions, different answers -- The anthropology of war : polemics and confusion