Sustainability, human ecology, and the collapse of complex societies : economic anthropology and a 21st century adaptation
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Sustainability, human ecology, and the collapse of complex societies : economic anthropology and a 21st century adaptation
(Mellen studies in anthropology, v. 15)
Edwin Mellen Press, c2004
Available at 5 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-395) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Caldararo (anthropology, San Francisco State U.) intends this volume to serve both as an introduction to economic anthropology and as a demonstration of the usefulness of cultural history in the study of the evolution of human institutions. He first reviews the pertinent literature, addressing questions of surplus versus wealth; the relationship be
Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Anthropology and Economics: A Review
- 1. Anthropology and the Cosmology of a Modern Economics
- 2. Wants, Needs and the Question of Surplus vs. Wealth
- 3. Complexity and Stability or Stagnation: Declining Returns and the Business Cycle
- 4. Wealth, Consumption, Quality of Life and Standard of Living
- 5. The Great Debate: Economists and Anthropologists: The Market and Society, Continued
- Part II. Introduction to Hominid Economics
- 6. Introduction
- 7. Forest Fires, Origins and Myths
- 8. Traditional Peoples and Fire
- 9. Climate and Fire, Assessing Time's Arrow and the Antiquity of Anthropogenic Fire
- 10. Forest Management in Modern and Traditional Society
- 11. The Degraded Environment and Homo Sapiens
- 12. Co-evolutionary Processes and Environmental Exploitation
- 13. Makeup and Nature of Forests: Fire-Adapted Species vs. 'Old Growth' Determining Fire History: Fire Scars, Fire
- 14. Histories and Thermal Alteration
- 15. Insects, Biomass Reduction and Pesticides
- 16. Conclusion: Forests and The Future of Man
- Part III Cycles of Growth and Collapse versus the Possibility of Sustainable Societies
- 17. Introduction
- 18. The Problem of Population and the Nature of Human Society
- 19. Consumerism and Sustainability: Japan as an Example
- 20. The Evolution of Modern Japan and its Transformation
- Part IV The Role of Ideology and Religious Precepts in the Containment and Change of Society: A Modernist View
- 21. Ideology and Religious Precepts and Motivations: Why People Work
- 22. Fundamentalism versus Globalism
- Part V Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
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