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
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-395) and index
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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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