Human Ecology
25 Oct 2023 22:06
I use the phrase with some diffidence, because I'm not quite sure this is what other people mean by it. What I want is studies of how people have re-shaped their ecosystems --- and, conversely, how their cultures have been shaped by their environments; perhaps this should be called something else...
See also: Archaeology; Ecology; Historical Materialism
- Recommended:
- Guillermo Algaze, "The Sumerian Takeoff", Structure and Dynamics 1 (2005): forthcoming [From the abstract: "Economic geographers correctly note that regional variations in economic activity and population agglomeration are always the result of self-reinforcing processes of resource production, accumulation, exchange, and innovation. This article proposes that essentially similar forces account for the emergence of the world's earliest cities in the alluvial lowlands of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers (Southern Mesopotamia), sometime during the second half of the fourth millennium BC."]
- Stephen Budiansky, Nature's Keepers: The New Science of Nature Management [Review: Heaven and Earth Are Not Benevolent]
- Simon Schama, Landscape and Memory
- Yi-Fu Tuan
- Andrew P. Vayda (ed.), Environment and Cultural Behavior: Ecological Studies in Cultural Anthropology
- To read:
- Richard Newbold Adams
- David Bourdon, Designing the Earth: The Human Impulse to Shape Nature
- Carole Crumley (ed.), Historical Ecology
- Mark Elvin, The Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China [Blurb]
- Amos Hawley, Human Ecology: A Theoretical Essay
- Geoffrey and Susan Jellicoe, The Landscape of Man: Shaping the Environment from Prehistory to the Present Day
- William Meyer, Human Impact on Earth
- Turner et alii (eds.), The Earth as Transformed by Human Action
- Michael R. REdclift, Frontiers: Histories of Civil Society and Nature [Blurb]
- S. J. Ulijaszek and S. S. Strickland (eds.), Seasonality and Human Ecology
- Brett L. Walker, The Conquest of Ainu Lands: Ecology and Culture in Japanese Expansion, 1590--1800 [Blurb]
