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050 00 $aGF13$b.A39 1998
082 00 $a304.2$221
245 00 $aAdvances in historical ecology /$cWilliam Balée, editor.
260 $aNew York :$bColumbia University Press,$c[1998], ©1998.
300 $axvi, 429 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c26 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $tForeword /$rCarole L. Crumley --$tIntroduction /$rWilliam Balee --$gPt. I.$tHuman and Material Factors in Historical Ecology.$gCh. 1.$tHistorical Ecology: Premises and Postulates /$rWilliam Balee.$gCh. 2.$tEcological History and Historical Ecology: Diachronic Modeling Versus Historical Explanation /$rNeil L. Whitehead.$gCh. 3.$tA Historical-Ecological Perspective on Epidemic Disease /$rLinda A. Newson.$gCh. 4.$tForged in Fire: History, Land, and Anthropogenic Fire /$rStephen J. Pyne.$gCh. 5.$tDiachronic Ecotones and Anthropogenic Landscapes in Amazonia: Contesting the Consciousness of Conservation /$rDarrell A. Posey.$gCh. 6.$tMetaphor and Metamorphism: Some Thoughts on Environmental Metahistory /$rElizabeth Graham --$gPt. II.$tRegional Research and Landscape Analyses in Historical Ecology.$gCh. 7.$tThe Rat That Ate Louisiana: Aspects of Historical Ecology in the Mississippi River Delta /$rTristram R. Kidder.
505 80 $gCh. 8.$tCultural, Human, and Historical Ecology in the Great Basin: Fifty Years of Ideas About Ten Thousand Years of Prehistory /$rRobert L. Bettinger.$gCh. 9.$tAncient and Modern Hunter-Gatherers of Lowland South America: An Evolutionary Problem /$rAnna C. Roosevelt.$gCh. 10.$tPotential Versus Actual Vegetation: Human Behavior in a Landscape Medium /$rTed Gragson.$gCh. 11.$tDomestication as a Historical and Symbolic Process: Wild Gardens and Cultivated Forests in the Ecuadorian Amazon /$rLaura Rival.$gCh. 12.$tIndependent Yet Interdependent "Isode": The Historical Ecology of Traditional Piaroa Settlement Pattern /$rStanford Zent.$gCh. 13.$tWhatever Happened to the Stone Age? Steel Tools and Yanomami Historical Ecology /$rR. Brian Ferguson.$gCh. 14.$tMissionary Activity and Indian Labor in the Upper Rio Negro of Brazil, 1680-1980: A Historical-Ecological Approach /$rJanet M. Chernela.
505 80 $gCh. 15.$tCultural Persistence and Environmental Change: The Otomi of the Valle del Mezquital, Mexico /$rElinor G. K. Melville.$gCh. 16.$tThe Great Cow Explosion in Rajasthan /$rCarol Henderson.$gCh. 17.$tThe Historical Ecology of Thailand: Increasing Thresholds of Human Environmental Impact from Prehistory to the Present /$rLeslie E. Sponsel --$tEpilogue /$rT. R. Kidder and William Balee.
520 $aBridging the divide between social and natural sciences, the contributors to this book use a holistic perspective to explore the relationships between humans and their environment. Exploring short- and long-term local and global change, eighteen specialists in anthropology, geography, history, ethnobiology, and related disciplines present new perspectives on historical ecology.
650 0 $aHuman ecology$xHistory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2005008408
650 0 $aNature$xEffect of human beings on.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85080299
650 0 $aLandscape assessment$xHistory.
650 0 $aLandscape changes$xHistory.
650 0 $aBiotic communities.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85014266
650 0 $aEnvironmental degradation.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92006466
700 1 $aBalée, William L.,$d1954-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87101077
852 00 $bglg$hGF13$i.A39 1998
852 00 $bsci$hGF13$i.A39 1998