ANTH 4111 WA - Ecological & Environmental Anthropology

Readings

• Optional: Kaplan, David and Robert A. Manners 1986 Cultural Theory Waveland Press, Prospect Heights.
• Optional: Kaplan and Manners Ch 1, pp 32-38
• Optional: Unilineal Social Evolution (E.B. Tylor and L. H. Morgan) “Savagery, Barbarism and Civilization”
• Optional: Kaplan and Manners Ch 1, pp 38-43 L.H. Morgan “Ethnical Periods”
• Optional: Kaplan and Manners pp 43-45 F. Boas “The Limitations of the Comparative Method” Leslie White “Energy and the Evolution of Culture”
• Optional: Kaplan and Manners pp 46-48, 75-87, J. Steward “The Concept and Method of Cultural Ecology” “Cultural Causality and Law”
• Optional: Salmon 1978 Butzer in Moran Lees and Bates “The Ecology of Cumulative Change” Gross “ Ecosystems and Methodological Problems in Ecological Anthro” Winterhalder 1984
• Optional: Feb 18 to 22 Fall Study week (No classes)
• Optional: -comparative (Murphy and Steward)
• Optional: Synchronic Models of Environmental Anthro Boreal Forest adaptation systems Foragers manipulating and changing their environment (fire ecology). Readings Gross “ Ecosystems and Methodological Problems in Ecological Anthro” Thomas 1973 Tanner 1978 Feit 1978
• Optional: Winterhalder 1983 Moore and Keene 1983 ch 6
• Optional: -The Speculative Period (1492-1840)
• Optional: -The Classificatory-Descriptive Period (1840-1914)
• Optional: -The Classificatory-Historical Period (1914-1940)
• Optional: Willey and Sabloff Ch 2, 3, 4
• Optional: -The Classificatory-Historical Period cont’d (1940-1960)
• Optional: - The Modern Period (1960-present) Processualism and the Environmental Focus
• Optional: Readings List 1956 “Ecological relationships of ethnic
• Optional: Anderson, James N. groups in Swat, North Pakistan, American 1973 “Ecological Anthropology or Anthropologist 58: 1079-1089 Anthropological Ecology” In Handbook of Social and Cultural Anthropology edited
• Optional: Bennett, John W. by J.J. Honigmann, pp 179-239 Rand 1976 The Ecological Transition: Cultural
• Optional: McNally, Chicago. Anthroplogy and Human Adaptation Pergamon Press, New York
• Optional: Applebaum, Herbert (ed) 1987 Perspectives in Cultural Bertalanffy, L. von Anthropology State University of New 1950 “The Theory of Open Systems in York Press, Albany Physics and Biology” Science vol 111, - pp23-29
• Optional: 1969 General System Theory Braziller, reprinted in P. Bohannan and M Glazer New York. High Points in Anthropology 2nd edition, Alfred A. Knopf, New York.
• Optional: Bettinger, R.L. 1987 “Archaeological Approaches to Hunter- Bohannan, P. and M. Glazer (ed) Gatherers” Annual Review of 1988 High Points in Anthropology Alfred Anthropology 16: 121-142. A. Knopf, New York
• Optional: Carneiro, Robert L. 1967 “Smudge pits and hide smoking: the use 1970 “A theory of the origin of the state” of analogy in archaeological reasoning” Science 169: 733-738 American Antiquity 32:1-12
• Optional: Cohen, M.N. 1977 (ed) For Theory Building in 1977 The Food Crisis in Prehistory Yale Archaeology Academic Press, New York. University Press, New Haven.
• Optional: 1978 Nunamiut Ethnoarchaeology Conkey, M.W. and J.D. Spector Academic Press, New York. 1984 “Archaeology and the study of gender” Advances in Archaeological Method and 1981 Bones: Ancient Men and Modern Theory 7: 1-38. Myths Academic Press, New York.
• Optional: Cook, S. 1987 “Data, relativism and archaeological 1966 “The obsolete ‘anti-market’ mentality: a science” Man 22: 391-404. critique of the substantive approach to economic anthropology” American
• Optional: Binford, L.R. and J.A. Sabloff Anthropologist 68: 323-345. 1982 “Paradigms, systematics, and archaeology” Journal of Anthropological Cox, Bruce Research 38: 137-153. 1978 Cultural Ecology Macillian Co of Canada
• Optional: Binford, S.R. and L.R. Binford (eds) 1968 New Perspectives in Archeology Dalton, G.
• Optional: Aldine, Chicago. 1961 “Economic theory and primitive society” American Anthropologist 63: 1
• Optional: Bishop, C.A. 25. 1974 The Northern Ojibwa and the Fur Trade: An Historical and Ecological Deagan, K. Study Holt, Rinehart and Winston of 1982 “Avenues of inquiry in historical
• Optional: Canada, Toronto archaeology” In Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory 5: 1986 “Territoriality among Northeastern 151-177 Algonquians” Anthropologica 28 (1-2) 37- 63 Dunnell, R.C. 1980 “Evolutionary theory and archaeology”
• Optional: Boas, F. Advances in Archaeological Method and 1896 “The Limitations of the Comparative Theory 3: 35-99. Method of Anthropology” Science 4 no 103
• Optional: Feit, H. 1986 The Principles of Social Evolution 1978 “The Ethno-Ecology of the Waswanipi Clarendon Press, Oxford Cree: or How Hunters Can Manage Their Resources” in Cultural Ecology edited by Hamilton, S. Bruce Cox Macillian Co of Canada 1993 “Over-hunting and Local Extinctions:Socio-Economic Implications of
• Optional: Washington, Washington, DC, pp 67-87
• Optional: Hardesty, Donald L. 1972 “The cultural evolution of civilizations” 1977 Ecological Anthropology John Wiley Annual Review of Ecology and and Sons, New York
• Hardesty, Donald L. 1972 “The cultural evolution of civilizations” 1977 Ecological Anthropology John Wiley Annual Review of Ecology and and Sons, New York Systematics 3: 399-426.
• Harris, Marvin 1973 “The Origins of Agriculture” Annual 1968 The Rise of Anthropological Theory Reviw of Anthropology 2:271-310, Thomas Y. Crowell Co, New York reprinted in The Early Mesoamerican Village edited by K.V. Flannery, Academic 1974 Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches: The Press Riddles of Culture Vintage Press, New York 1973b “Archaeology with a Capital S” In Research and Theory in Current 1980 “Theoretical Principles of Cultural Archaeology edited by Charles L Redman Materialism” in Cultural Materialism: The John Wiley and Sons, Toronto. Struggle for a Science of Culture, Vintage
• Gibbon, G. Anthropology” American Journal of 1984 Anthropological Archaeology Sociology 67:630-639. Columbia University Press, New York 1968 “The Nature of Dogrib Socioterritorial
• Goudie, Andrew Groups” in R.B. Lee and I DeVore (ed) 1981 The Human Impact: Man’s Role in Man the Hunter Aldine Press, Chicago, pp Environmental Change Basil Blackwell, 118-125 Oxford
• Press, Ann Arbor expanded edition, Waveland Press, Prospect Heights
• Current approaches to interpretation in Leone, M.P., P.B. Potter jr, and P.A Shackel archaeology Cambridge University Press, 1987 “Toward a critical archaeology” Cambridge. Current Anthropology 28: 283-302.
• Routledge, New York 1976 Ecology, Energenics and Human Variability Wm. C. Brown Publishers
• Kaplan, D. and R.A. Manners McIntosh, R.P. 1972 Culture Theory Waveland Press, 1985 The Background of Ecology: Conecpt Prospect Heights and Theory Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
• Morgan, Lewis HenryLee, R.B. and I. DeVore 1964 “Ethnical Periods” Ancient Society 1968 Man the Hunter Aldine Publishing Co, edited by L.A. White The Belknap Press of Chicago Harvard University Press, Cambridge. reprinted in P. Bohannan and M Glazer
• Lees, S.H. and D.G. Bates High Points in Anthropology 2nd edition, 1990 “The Ecology of Cumulative Change” Alfred A. Knopf, New York. in The Ecosystem Approach in Anthropology edited by E. Moran
• 1968 Hill Farmers of Nigeria: Cultural 1986 Migrations in Prehistory: Inferring Ecology of the Kofyar of the Jos Plateau Population Movement from Cultural University of Washington Press, Seattle. Remains Yale University Press, New Haven. 1973 “Fighting, Forest and the Fly: Some Demographic Regulators among the Kofyar” Roy, Ellen Journal of Anthropological Research 29: 1982 Environment, Subsistence and 164-179 System Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1986 Cultural Ecology (2nd Edition), Waveland Press, Prospect Heights, Illinois. Sahlins, M.D. 1960 “Evolution: Specific and General” in
• Odum, Eugene P. Evolution and Culture University of 1971 Fundamentals of Ecology 3rd edition Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, reprinted in P. W.B. Saunders Co, Toronto Bohannan and M Glazer High Points in Anthropology 2nd edition, Alfred A.
• Renfrew, Colin and Ezra W. Zubrow (ed) Status and Apparent Identity of the San 1994 The Ancient Mind: Elements of Hunter-Gatherers” Human Ecology 8:193- Cognitive Archaeology Cambridge 212 University Press, Cambridge.
• 1989 “Undirected Variation and the Shanks, Michael and Christopher Tilley Darwinian Explanation of Cultural Change” 1987 Re-Constructing Archaeology: Archaeological Method and Theory Vol 1 Theory and Practise 2nd Edition, edited by M.B. Schiffer, University of Routledge New York. Arizona press, Tucson
• Rogers, E.S. 1976 The Ecology of Man: An Ecosystem 1983 “Cultural Adaptations: The Northern Appraoch 2nd edition Harper and Row Ojibwa of the Boreal Forest 1670-1980” In Publishers, New York Boreal Forest Adaptations: The Northern Algonkians edited by A.T. Steergman, Speck, Frank Plenum Press. 1978 “The Family Hunting Band as the Basis of Algonkian Social Organization” in
• Cultural Ecology edited by Bruce Cox 1973 “An Empirical Test for Steward’s Macillian Co of Canada Model of Great Basin Settlement Patterns” American Antiquity 38:155-176
• Steward, Julian H. 1936 “The Economic and Social Basis of Trigger, Bruce G. Primative Bands” in Essays on 1989 A History of Archaeological Thought Anthropology in Honor of Alfred Louis Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Kroeber University of Californian Press Berkeley pp311-50 Vayda, Andrew P. 1969 “An Ecological Approach in Cultural 1949 “Cultural Causality and Law: A Trial Anthropology” Bucknell Review 17:112- Formulation of the Development of Early 119 Civilizations” American Anthropologist 51:1-27 reprinted in Herbert Applebaum Vayda, Andrew P. (ed) (ed) Perspectives in Cultural 1982 Environment and Cultural Behavior Anthropology State University of New (4th Printing) University of Texas Press York Press, Albany Austin
• 1955 “The Concept and Method of Cultural Vayda, A.P. and B. McCay Ecology” Theory of Culture Change 1975 “New Directions in Ecology and Ecological University of Illinois Press, reprinted in P. Anthropology” Annual Review of Anthropology Bohannan and M Glazer High Points in 4:293-306. Anthropology 2nd edition, Alfred A.
• Struever, S. and F. Antonelli Holton Scientific Approach Columbia University Press 1979 Koster: Americans in Search of their Prehistoric Past Mentor Books, Wiener, N. Scarborough. 1961 Cybernetics 2nd ed. M.I.T. Press, Cambridge.
• Syms, E.L. Willey, G.R. and J.A. Sabloff 1977 “Cultural Ecology and Ecological 1980 A History of American Archaeology 2nd Dynamics of the Ceramic Period in edition, Thames and Hudson, London Southwestern Manitoba” Plains Anthropologist Memoir 12 22-76 pt 2 Winterhalder, B and E.A Smith (ed) 1981 Hunter-Gatherer Foraging Strategies:
• Tanner, Adrian Ethnographic and Archaeological Analyses 1978 “The Significance of Hunting University of Chicago Press, Chicago Territories Today” in Cultural Ecology edited by Bruce Cox Macillian Co of Winterhalder, B. Canada 1983 “History and Ecology of the Boreal Zone in Ontario” in Boreal Forest Adaptations edited by 1989 Bringing Home Animals Social and A.T. Steegmann, Plenum Press, New York Economic Studies No 23, Memorial 1984 “Reconsidering the Ecosystem Concept” University Reviews in Anthropology 11(4):301-330.