Against the Grain: The Vayda Tradition in Human Ecology and Ecological Anthropology

Against the Grain: The Vayda Tradition in Human Ecology and Ecological Anthropology
Format
Paperback
Publisher
AltaMira Press,U.S.
Country
United States
Published
16 December 2008
Pages
392
ISBN
9780759111738

Against the Grain: The Vayda Tradition in Human Ecology and Ecological Anthropology

To rise to the increasingly urgent challenge of understanding the relationship between human beings and the environment, scholars need to step back and re-evaluate their basic premises about how current explanations should shape the form and content of their research. Against the Grain addresses a variety of topics in the field of human ecology, including ecological anthropology, evolutionary psychology, environmental history, and geography, and challenges scholars to re-think the adequacy of their methods and assumptions. Andrew P. Vayda concludes the volume with a critical commentary on these issues and, more widely, on the subject of explanation. The result is an extremely useful and provocative prZcis for thinking about, re-evaluating, and rectifying scholarly research.

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