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Tables of Contents for Cultural Ecology
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Chapter 1 Ecological Perspectives
1
7
Chapter 2 Hunter-Gatherers
8
19
Privation or Abundance?
9
4
Band Flexibility
13
4
Population Control
17
5
Territoriality
22
5
Chapter 3 Northwest Coast Fishermen
27
14
The Nature of the Environment
28
2
The Potlatch
30
4
Competition and the Control of Resources
34
7
Chapter 4 East African Pastoralists
41
18
The Cattle Complex
41
2
The Herding Habitat
43
5
Economizing with Cows
48
2
The Advantages of Large Herds
50
4
Pastoralist Personality
54
3
The Lineage: A Model of Society in the Mind or on the Ground?
57
2
Chapter 5 Cultivators
59
27
System and Knowledge in Non-Western Agriculture
60
5
Shifting and Intensive Techniques of Cultivation
65
11
Functional Links between Farming and Social Organization
76
10
Chapter 6 Testing Ecological Explanations
86
18
Field Methods
86
2
Cross-Cultural and Historical Comparison
88
2
Human Problems and the Relevance of Ecological Research
90
8
The Limitations of Ecology
98
6
References
104
21
Index
125