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As Pastoralists Settle
Social, Health, and Economic Consequences of the Pastoral Sedentarization in Marsabit District, Kenya
Av Elliot Fratkin, Eric Abella Roth
Inbunden, 2005
1529 kr
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The Social, Health, and Economic Consequences of Pastoral Sedentarization in Marsabit District, Northern Kenya ERICABELLA ROTH AND ELLIOT FRATKIN 1. INTRODUCTION Formerly nomadic livestock-keeping pastoralists have settled in many regions of the world in the past century. Some groups, including …
Risk Management in a Hazardous Environment
A Comparative Study of two Pastoral Societies
Inbunden, 2005
1094 kr
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A research focus on hazards, risk perception and risk minimizing strategies is relatively new in the social and environmental sciences. This volume by a prominent scholar of East African societies is a powerful example of this growing interest. Earlier theory and research tended to describe social …
Seeking a Richer Harvest
The Archaeology of Subsistence Intensification, Innovation, and Change
Av Tina Thurston, Christopher T Fisher
Inbunden, 2006
1094 kr
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Subsistence intensification, innovation and change have long figured prominently in explanations for the development of social complexity among foragers and horticulturalists, and the rise of chiefly societies and archaic states, yet there is considerable debate over the actual mechanisms that …
African Landscapes
Interdisciplinary Approaches
Av Michael Bollig, Olaf Bubenzer
Inbunden, 2008
2182 kr
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Landscape studies provide a crucial perspective into the interaction between humans and their environment, shedding insight on social, cultural, and economic topics. The research explores both the way that natural processes have affected the development of culture and society, as well as the ways …
Staying Maasai?
Livelihoods, Conservation and Development in East African Rangelands
Av Katherine Homewood, Patti Kristjanson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
1638 kr
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The area of eastern Africa, which includes Tanzania and Kenya, is known for its savannas, wildlife and tribal peoples. Alongside these iconic images lie concerns about environmental degradation, declining wildlife populations, and about worsening poverty of pastoral peoples. East Africa presents in …
African Landscapes
Interdisciplinary Approaches
Av Michael Bollig, Olaf Bubenzer
Häftad, 2010
2247 kr
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Landscape studies provide a crucial perspective into the interaction between humans and their environment, shedding insight on social, cultural, and economic topics. The research explores both the way that natural processes have affected the development of culture and society, as well as the ways …
Staying Maasai?
Livelihoods, Conservation and Development in East African Rangelands
Av Katherine Homewood, Patti Kristjanson m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
1638 kr
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The area of eastern Africa, which includes Tanzania and Kenya, is known for its savannas, wildlife and tribal peoples. Alongside these iconic images lie concerns about environmental degradation, declining wildlife populations, and about worsening poverty of pastoral peoples. East Africa presents in …
As Pastoralists Settle
Social, Health, and Economic Consequences of the Pastoral Sedentarization in Marsabit District, Kenya
Av Elliot Fratkin, Eric Abella Roth
Häftad, 2010
1575 kr
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The Social, Health, and Economic Consequences of Pastoral Sedentarization in Marsabit District, Northern Kenya ERICABELLA ROTH AND ELLIOT FRATKIN 1. INTRODUCTION Formerly nomadic livestock-keeping pastoralists have settled in many regions of the world in the past century. Some groups, including …
Risk Management in a Hazardous Environment
A Comparative Study of two Pastoral Societies
Häftad, 2010
1529 kr
Lägg i varukorg
A research focus on hazards, risk perception and risk minimizing strategies is relatively new in the social and environmental sciences. This volume by a prominent scholar of East African societies is a powerful example of this growing interest. Earlier theory and research tended to describe social …
Seeking a Richer Harvest
The Archaeology of Subsistence Intensification, Innovation, and Change
Av Tina Thurston, Christopher T Fisher
Häftad, 2011
1575 kr
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Subsistence intensification, innovation and change have long figured prominently in explanations for the development of social complexity among foragers and horticulturalists, and the rise of chiefly societies and archaic states, yet there is considerable debate over the actual mechanisms that …
Energy, Policy, and the Environment
Modeling Sustainable Development for the North
Av Marja Järvelä, Sirkku Juhola
Inbunden, 2011
1095 kr
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This book sets the questions of energy and the environment in the North in the global context and further addresses historical developments, views on energy taxation and tariffs, and effects of EU energy policy. Climate change appears more frequently than ever on the top of global and national …
Energy, Policy, and the Environment
Modeling Sustainable Development for the North
Av Marja Järvelä, Sirkku Juhola
Häftad, 2013
1095 kr
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This book sets the questions of energy and the environment in the North in the global context and further addresses historical developments, views on energy taxation and tariffs, and effects of EU energy policy. Climate change appears more frequently than ever on the top of global and national …
Continuity and Change in Cultural Adaptation to Mountain Environments
From Prehistory to Contemporary Threats
Inbunden, 2013
1095 kr
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Up until now, mountain ecosystems have not been closely studies by social scientists as they do not offer a readily defined set of problems for human exploitation as, do for instance, tropical forests or arctic habitats. But the archaeological evidence had shown that humans have been living in this …
Continuity and Change in Cultural Adaptation to Mountain Environments
From Prehistory to Contemporary Threats
Häftad, 2015
1094 kr
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Up until now, mountain ecosystems have not been closely studies by social scientists as they do not offer a readily defined set of problems for human exploitation as, do for instance, tropical forests or arctic habitats. But the archaeological evidence had shown that humans have been living in this …
Pastures of Change
Contemporary Adaptations and Transformations among Nomadic Pastoralists of Eastern Tibet
Häftad, 2019
986 kr
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This book offers a novel examination of socio-environmental change in a nomadic pastoralist area of the eastern Tibetan plateau. Drawing on long-term fieldwork that underscores an ethnography of local nomadic pastoralists, international development organisations, and Chinese government policies, …
Global Perspectives on Long Term Community Resource Management
Av Ludomir R. Lozny, Thomas H. McGovern
Inbunden, 2019
1127 kr
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Communal-level resource management successes and failures comprise complex interactions that involve local, regional, and (increasingly) global scale political, economic, and environmental changes, shown to have recurring patterns and trajectories. The human past provides examples of long-term …
Global Perspectives on Long Term Community Resource Management
Av Ludomir R. Lozny, Thomas H. McGovern
Häftad, 2020
1127 kr
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Communal-level resource management successes and failures comprise complex interactions that involve local, regional, and (increasingly) global scale political, economic, and environmental changes, shown to have recurring patterns and trajectories. The human past provides examples of long-term …
Dynamics of Cultural Evolution
The Central Role of Purposive Behaviors
Inbunden, 2022
1239 kr
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This book explores the nature of cultural and culturally structured social and behavioral entities, their evolutionary interactions, and the central role purposive behaviors play in those interactions. It, first, makes the case for cultural and cultural structured systems being considered as true …
Dynamics of Cultural Evolution
The Central Role of Purposive Behaviors
Häftad, 2023
1239 kr
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This book explores the nature of cultural and culturally structured social and behavioral entities, their evolutionary interactions, and the central role purposive behaviors play in those interactions. It, first, makes the case for cultural and cultural structured systems being considered as true …
Respect and Responsibility in Pacific Coast Indigenous Nations
The World Raven Makes
Av E. N. Anderson, Raymond Pierotti
Inbunden, 2022
1094 kr
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This book examines ways of conserving, managing, and interacting with plant and animal resources by Native American cultural groups of the Pacific Coast of North America, from Alaska to California. These practices helped them maintain and restore ecological balance for thousands of years. Building …
Respect and Responsibility in Pacific Coast Indigenous Nations
The World Raven Makes
Av E. N. Anderson, Raymond Pierotti
Häftad, 2023
1094 kr
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This book examines ways of conserving, managing, and interacting with plant and animal resources by Native American cultural groups of the Pacific Coast of North America, from Alaska to California. These practices helped them maintain and restore ecological balance for thousands of years. Building …
Feast, Famine or Fighting?
Multiple Pathways to Social Complexity
Av Richard J. Chacon, Rubén G. Mendoza
Inbunden, 2017
1855 kr
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The advent of social complexity has been a longstanding debate among social scientists. Existing theories and approaches involving the origins of social complexity include environmental circumscription, population growth, technology transfers, prestige-based and interpersonal-group competition, …
Lithic Technological Organization and Paleoenvironmental Change
Global and Diachronic Perspectives
Av Erick Robinson, Frédéric Sellet
Inbunden, 2017
1911 kr
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The objective of this edited volume is to bring together a diverse set of analyses to document how small-scale societies responded to paleoenvironmental change based on the evidence of their lithic technologies. The contributions bring together an international forum for interpreting changes in …
Pastures of Change
Contemporary Adaptations and Transformations among Nomadic Pastoralists of Eastern Tibet
Inbunden, 2018
1094 kr
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This book offers a novel examination of socio-environmental change in a nomadic pastoralist area of the eastern Tibetan plateau. Drawing on long-term fieldwork that underscores an ethnography of local nomadic pastoralists, international development organisations, and Chinese government policies, …
Feast, Famine or Fighting?
Multiple Pathways to Social Complexity
Av Richard J. Chacon, Rubén G. Mendoza
Häftad, 2018
1911 kr
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The advent of social complexity has been a longstanding debate among social scientists. Existing theories and approaches involving the origins of social complexity include environmental circumscription, population growth, technology transfers, prestige-based and interpersonal-group competition, …
Lithic Technological Organization and Paleoenvironmental Change
Global and Diachronic Perspectives
Av Erick Robinson, Frédéric Sellet
Häftad, 2018
1911 kr
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The objective of this edited volume is to bring together a diverse set of analyses to document how small-scale societies responded to paleoenvironmental change based on the evidence of their lithic technologies. The contributions bring together an international forum for interpreting changes in …
