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	Cultural ecology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is this assertion - that the physical environment affects culture - that had proved controversial, because it implies an element of environmental determininsm over human actions.
		Cultural ecology is, indeed, inflicted with mild environmental determinism, but the approach has value in the types of situations inwhich it was developed.
		It lives on, however, in anthropology and geography - and because political, cultural, human, and social ecology are contested terms, many people still make detailed assessments of environment-culture linkages, without calling this cultural ecology.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cultural_ecology (433 words)

	Ecological Anthropology
		Vayda writes on the new ecology and believes that the population of a species should be the ideal unit of analysis, not its culture.
		New ecology stresses that a population should be the unit of analysis in a study, not the culture.
		Ecology is the study of the interaction between living and nonliving components of the environment (Moran 1979:328).
	www.as.ua.edu /ant/Faculty/murphy/ecologic.htm (4321 words)

	Political ecology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Political ecology is an umbrella term for a variety of projects that involve "politics" and the "environment." These projects generally fall within one of three types:
		In both disciplines political ecology also refers to a specific attempt to bring together cultural ecology and political economy.
		This conjuncture is a little complicated because geographers and anthropologists mean different (but complementary) things by "cultural ecology." In general, "cultural ecology" studies the relationship between a given society and its natural environment.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Political_ecology (374 words)

	Managing Change
		Cultural ecology is an educational experience that demonstrates the importance of crossing boundaries of traditional subjects in order to understand and solve environmental problems.
		Cultural ecology is a set of notions about nature illustrating how everyone interprets the world from within a particular multi factorial framework of perception and thought, which often gives rise to difficulties and dangers in using ones own perspective to judge the values and behaviour of others towards environmental issues.
		Cultural ecology is a gathering of local information about the good and bad aspects of neighbourhood.
	www.culturalecology.info (2146 words)

	Conservation Ecology: Cross-cultural conflicts in fire management in northern Australia: not so black and white.
		Cultural tensions between Australia's colonists and its original inhabitants rank highly on the national agenda, particularly in relation to land access and ownership.
		The real cultural contrasts in the acquisition and use of information relating to fire management in northern Australia are between the culture of science on one hand, and the culture of management, fl and white, on the other (Table 3).
		This is not to denigrate the rich cultural heritage of Aboriginal Australians, who have been successful custodians of the Australian environment for millenia, and who possess an enormous, but largely untapped, knowledge of the Australian biota.
	www.ecologyandsociety.org /vol3/iss1/art6 (4297 words)

	ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OKLAHOMA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The work will encompass time periods from pre-Columbian through the late twentieth century and will include a diversity of disciplines to provide a rounded portrait of the state's history, its physical properties, its many peoples, and their collective and individual pursuits.
		The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture will synthesize decades of scholarship and will be a significant tool for Oklahomans to use in understanding and broadening their knowledge of their heritage.
		An institution or organization may be included as a separate entry if it is determined to have strong statewide historical or cultural significance, apart from that attached to the significance of a single founding individual.
	www.ok-history.mus.ok.us /enc/OkEncyclopedia.htm (1192 words)

	seminar
		Both cultural and political ecology are interdisciplinary, drawing inspiration from and overlapping with anthropology, biology, and development studies.
		Cultural ecology has its roots in anthropology, when researchers investigated how adaptation to the environment gave rise to particular cultural forms.
		By the 1980s the field of cultural ecology expanded as researchers began investigating environmental transformation using perspectives from political economy and social theory (gender in particular), giving rise to the term, political ecology.
	oak.cats.ohiou.edu /~jokisch/seminar.htm (613 words)

	paper2.html
		He called it the theory of cultural ecology and it gave archaeology a feasible explanation for long-term developments in a society.
		Cultural ecology examines that relationship and attempts to "determine whether similar adjustments occur in similar environments" (Steward 1959).
		Steward's cultural ecology is directly related to the cultural evolution, which leads us to another of his great intellectual contributions, multi-linear evolution.
	www.utexas.edu /courses/wilson/ant304/biography/arybios97/laurenzobio.html (807 words)

	Notes on the development of cultural ecology
		Culture and ecology alone are broad topics and the nature of their linkage even broader.
		Steward proposed focusing on that part of culture or a "culture core" (Figure 1) which he saw as most immediately connected to the physical world, that is the subsistence or productive strategies within a culture.
		It has not been sufficiently recognized that Stewart's so-called defining work in cultural ecology is called "The Theory of Culture Change: the Methodoogy of Multilinear Evolution" not "The Theory of Cultural Ecology." Steward's overriding interest was not to define cultural ecology but rather to understand the process or causes of the 'evolution' of culture.
	www.indiana.edu /~wanthro/eco.htm (1977 words)

	nanosciencestatement
		I chose the ecology metaphor to signify the integration of science and society, to draw attention to interdependencies characteristic of ecologies.
		In a cultural ecology of technology, the relationships between attributes of specific technologies and the ways we actually use the technologies are a key focus of interest.
		In a cultural ecology of technology such concerns would be a serious topic of discussion and focus of creativity.
	www.darrouzet-nardi.net /bonnie/nanosciencestatement.html (1983 words)

	CULTURAL MATERIALISM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Cultural Materialism is a scientific research strategy that prioritizes material, behavior and etic processes in the explanation of the evolution of human socio-cultural systems.
		Cultural materialists are concerned with the causality in socio-cultural systems and hold that, to find it out, we have to study material constraints that human existence is subjected to.
		Cultural materialism does not think all cultural changes result from dialectical contradictions but think that cultural evolution results from the gradual accumulation of useful traits through a process of trial and error.
	www.indiana.edu /~wanthro/mater.htm (1256 words)

	Association of American Geographers
		Cultural ecology--the ways in which humans have interacted with their cultural and natural environment at various times--is also included.
		Cultural geographers often try to reconstruct past environments, and to do so they must be equally skilled in library research, field observation, and the interpretation of cultural artifacts.
		Many cultural and human geographers are area specialists as well, which means that they focus their attention on a specific region, such as Latin America, Europe, or Asia.
	www.aag.org /Careers/Cultural_Human_Geography.html (429 words)

	Cultural Ecology Proseminar
		The theme is also known as: human ecology, behavioral geography, cultural ecology, and in an earlier time, "man-environment relations." Other topics are related to it: behavioral environment, perception of environment, ethnogeography, energetic and natural hazards research.
		Turner II, B. The specialist-synthesis approach to the revival of geography: The case of cultural ecology.
		Culture and environment: The study of cultural ecology.
	www.cwu.edu /~geograph/prosem1.html (1273 words)

	Island Ecology and Cultural Perceptions...
		That is why social scientists have started showing considerable interest in varying eco-structures with a view to understanding the complexities of cultural perceptions on the one hand and ecological challenges to developmental activities on the other.
		Many such traits of marine culture have already been lost, and those that are in vogue today will be lost soon due to the rapid changes taking place.
		The islanders’ cultural activities centre around fishing and coconuts, which may be called dual entry-points for studying the cultural perception of the Lakshadweep islanders.
	www.ignca.nic.in /cd_08014.htm (4248 words)

	Sweatshops and Butterflies: Cultural Ecology on the Edge
		Can these cultural expressions be recorded, organized in a digital package, presented by the people themselves in a living form to share with the world, without perverting their simplicity and originality?
		Cultures which took thousands of years to refine can vanish in a couple of generations if their young people stop believing in them.
		On the cultural ecology platform, many other important initiatives can flourish, such as improved local trade and marketing, teleworking via satellite, micro-finance, telemedicine, decentralized publishing and broadcasting, international student and teacher networking, and the use of renewable energy technologies.
	www.greenstar.org /butterflies (2320 words)

	Central American Cultural Ecology: Lower Central America - Cultural-Ecological Habitats - Nicaraguan Lakes and Pacific ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		...a culture frontier is not like a political frontier which can be definitely demarcated, but rather like the running together of two colors which blend to variegated hues along the line of contact.
		Previously, Haberland (1986; 1992) reported inter-layering of volcanic and cultural deposits in excavations on Ometepe Island in Lake Nicaragua (with the volcanoes Maderas and Concepcion, either or both, as possible sources).
		Haberland pointed out that historically documented eruptions which had deposited up to 6 inches of tephra, were not represented in the upper levels of the profile, suggesting the identified prehistoric volcanic strata may have resulted from even thicker deposits which were subsequently consolidated.
	www.mines.edu /camu/english/interarea/cenamerica/habitats/habitat.3/ecology/index.shtml (1008 words)

	Domhoff: "Senoi Dream Theory," Chapter 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		There also has been a great deal of interbreeding over the centuries, but their cultures are distinctive enough that the three general groupings appear to be defined at least in part by an attempt to remain different from each other and to retain a unique style of life.
		It seems likely that these three native cultures were pushed off their original lands as many as 4,000 years ago by people who migrated from the south of China and became what are today called Malaysians.
		However, he also concludes that their cultural was relatively untouched, which is the point that Taylor and the dreamwork movement continue to reject: "The Orang Asli were conscious of and experienced the power of modern technology while still adhering to their traditional ways."[54]
	mind.ucsc.edu /dreams/Library/senoi2.html (8688 words)

	Cultural Ecology
		This course is an upper level geography course, which explores the relationship between culture and environment.
		Cultural Ecology is the study of how humans and their cultures through adaptive mechanisms adjust to their natural environment and local habitat.
		Disciplinary approaches to cultural ecology and questions of scale.
	www.geog.umd.edu /homepage/courses/421/GEOG421_SUM02.html (504 words)

	Cultural Ecology
		Its presentation of human cultures around the globe introduces students to a range of diverse cultures.
		It is particularly well-suited to students in International Relations, because of the breadth of coverage of different cultures.
		Students from Nature and Culture and from Science and Technology Studies often take this course as well, for its exploration of fundamental issues in the study of human cultures and environments.
	www.des.ucdavis.edu /esp133/syll_current.html (1038 words)

	Central American Cultural Ecology: Lower Central America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The southern extent of high Mesoamerican culture in Central America appears to have been largely a result of diffusion into the semideciduous tropical woodlands and savannas of the Pacific coasts, whereas primitive forest cultures of South American affinity spread northward into the rain forests of the Caribbean coasts of Central America.
		Ecological patterns and cultural traits typical of the broader Caribbean coast of lower Central and South America did extend into the Maya lowlands and are also typical of the Veracruz coastal area.
		A more detailed and systematic discussion of the cultural development of Lower Central America is provided within the framework of a division of the region into cultural-ecological habitats.
	www.mines.edu /camu/english/interarea/cenamerica/index.shtml (890 words)

	PHILIP W. PORTER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		My systematic interests are varied -- cultural ecology, development, agricultural geography, agrometeorology, cartography, population geography, air photo interpretation.
		I try to help students (if they wish) to become unhyphenated geographers, that is, geographers who do not divide the field (and limit their interests) according to physical and cultural domains.
		"Ecology, Cultural," in Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes (eds.).
	www.geog.umn.edu /Faculty/Porter.html (347 words)

	Human Ecology ANTHC 308/Cultural Ecology AN715
		An introduction to basic concepts and controversies will be followed by applications to a variety of subjects now at the forefront of the field, including such issues as the impacts of globalization, state interventions, indigenous rights, problems of food and other resource production, urban landscapes and recreational spaces, and environmental movements and policymaking.
		Grossman, L. 1998: Introduction to The Political Ecology of Bananas.
		Human Ecology V. Rural People (Part I) McCay and Acheson 1987: The Human Ecology of the Commons.
	maxweber.hunter.cuny.edu /anthro/715f00.html (540 words)

	DDN Articles - Sweatshops and Hummingbirds: Cultural Ecology on The Edge
		The have-nots cannot be relied upon to remain passive and silent indefinitely, as their families sicken and starve, and as their future shrinks.
		But labor and nature have been exploited in ways that damage the physical and cultural ecology, and return little of lasting value to people except low-wage paychecks.
		This new idea holds that the diversities of human language, history, music, legend and image are just as important to preserve and assert as the physical ecology of ocean, atmosphere, earth, rainforest and river.
	www.digitaldivide.net /articles/view.php?ArticleID=312 (989 words)

	Habitatnews: Project on the Environmental history and cultural ecology of post-war Singapore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The environmental history and cultural ecology of post-war Singapore in relation to American perspectives and influences on nature and the environment
		Coming from different ethnic and geographical backgrounds, Singaporeans by virtue of their different customs, beliefs, practices, value systems and attachments would obviously have different perceptions and attitudes to nature and the urban environment around them.
		Their varying ideas of nature would go a long way to explaining cultural difference, identity and authority, among other things.
	habitatnews.nus.edu.sg /news/subra.html (998 words)

	Central American Cultural Ecology: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Thus, much of the discussion centered on developing server access for the cultural community, to allow Nicaraguan cultural institutions to contribute as well as receive information and documentatio It was decided that renting server space was a preferable initial alternative to purchasing a stand-alone cultural server.
		In the latter case, the Minister of Culture, Youth, and Sports agreed to prepare a ministerial/presidential decree to establish a national commission for coordinating the development and implementation of a national cultural network using Internet resources and services.
		It was also recognized that training is needed at the national level, and throughout the range of cultural institutions, if the country and the institutions are to realize the potential offered by Internet resources in the cultural arena.
	www.mines.edu /camu/english/report/index.shtml (2647 words)

	Geography 348U: Cultural Ecology
		In particular, it will focus on the various ways in which humans have lived in and modified the physical environment to create the complex cultural landscape of the modern world.
		It is not intended to be a comprehensive exploration, but a broad survey, incorporating a wide range of topics and ideas that will provide participants with a better understanding of human diversity and cultural landscapes around the world.
		Class sessions will be a mix of lecture, discussion, and in-class activities, which may include occasional short writing assignments, small group discussions, and/or films.
	web.pdx.edu /~revels/230syllabus.htm (383 words)

	Cultural Ecology Syllabus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Cultural Ecology (3) This course is designed to help students understand the interaction of humans, their cultural, political, social and economic systems with the physical environment.
		Specific attention will be given to cultural responses to environmental stimuli.
		Students will explain one or more current social, cultural or economic issue by using spatially informed logic.
	www.csun.edu /~sg4002/courses/660B/660_syllabus.htm (590 words)

	Ecology and Cultural Change
		While we investigate prehistoric cultures, there is an emphasis on contemporary societies--both non-western and western.
		This course combines a focus not only on how and why cultural and ecological systems change, but also on how individuals and societies experience that change.
		We investigate the structures and cultures of various societies in an attempt to understand the processes and consequences of ecological and social change.
	bernard.pitzer.edu /~pfaulsti/courses_taught/Ecology.htm (1405 words)

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