As Pastoralists Settle

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation | nr. 1
• Introduction: The Social, Health, and Economic Consequences of Pastoral Sedentarization in Marsabit District, Northern Kenya.- The Setting: Pastoral S... Lees meer

Staying Maasai?

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation | nr. 5
• The area of eastern Africa, which includes Tanzania and Kenya, is known for its savannas, wildlife and tribal peoples. Alongside these iconic images l... Lees meer

Respect and Responsibility in Pacific Coast Indigenous Nations

E N Anderson, Raymond Pierotti

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation | nr. 13
• This book examines ways of conserving, managing, and interacting with plant and animal resources by Native American cultural groups of the Pacific Coa... Lees meer

Lithic Technological Organization and Paleoenvironmental Change

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation | nr. 9
• The objective of this edited volume is to bring together a diverse set of analyses to document how small-scale societies responded to paleoenvironment... Lees meer

Seeking a Richer Harvest

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation | nr. 3
• Subsistence intensification, innovation and change have long figured prominently in explanations for the development of social complexity among forage... Lees meer

Respect and Responsibility in Pacific Coast Indigenous Nations

E N Anderson, Raymond Pierotti

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation | nr. 13
• - 1. Commons and Management. - 2. Looking to the Sea: Economics and Ecology in the Pacific Northwest. - 3. Looking to the Land: Terrestrial Ecology. -... Lees meer

Lithic Technological Organization and Paleoenvironmental Change

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation | nr. 9
• The objective of this edited volume is to bring together a diverse set of analyses to document how small-scale societies responded to paleoenvironment... Lees meer

Pastures of Change

Gillian G Tan

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation | nr. 10
• This book offers a novel examination of socio-environmental change in a nomadic pastoralist area of the eastern Tibetan plateau. Drawing on long-term ... Lees meer

Global Perspectives on Long Term Community Resource Management

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation | nr. 11
• Communal-level resource management successes and failures comprise complex interactions that involve local, regional, and (increasingly) global scale ... Lees meer

Feast, Famine or Fighting?

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation | nr. 8
• The advent of social complexity has been a longstanding debate among social scientists. Existing theories and approaches involving the origins of soci... Lees meer

Risk Management in a Hazardous Environment

Michael Bollig

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation | nr. 2
• Studying Hazard and Risk in Pastoral Societies.- An Outline of Pokot and Himba Societies: Environment, Political Economy and Cultural Beliefs.- Hazard... Lees meer

Continuity and Change in Cultural Adaptation to Mountain Environments

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation | nr. 7
• 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 ... Lees meer

The Dynamics of Cultural Evolution

Michael Rosenberg

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation | nr. 12
• This book explores the nature of cultural and culturally structured social and behavioral entities, their evolutionary interactions, and the central r... Lees meer

As Pastoralists Settle

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation | nr. 1
• Throughout the world's arid regions, and particularly in northern and eastern Africa, formerly nomadic pastoralists are undergoing a transition to set... Lees meer

Seeking a Richer Harvest

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation | nr. 3
• Subsistence intensification, innovation and change have long figured prominently in explanations for the development of social complexity among forage... Lees meer

Global Perspectives on Long Term Community Resource Management

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation | nr. 11
• Communal-level resource management successes and failures comprise complex interactions that involve local, regional, and (increasingly) global scale ... Lees meer

African Landscapes

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation | nr. 4
• Landscape studies provide a crucial perspective into the interaction between humans and their environment, shedding insight on social, cultural, and e... Lees meer

Energy, Policy, and the Environment

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation | nr. 6
• Introduction: Energy, policy and the environment: Modeling sustainable development for the North.-Part I: Energy, policy and the Environment in the No... Lees meer

Staying Maasai?

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation | nr. 5
• Family Portraits - Mara.- Changing Land Use, Livelihoods and Wildlife Conservation in Maasailand.- Methods in the Analysis of Maasai Livelihoods.- Maa... Lees meer

Energy, Policy, and the Environment

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation | nr. 6
• This book sets the questions of energy and the environment in the North in the global context and further addresses historical developments, views on ... Lees meer

Continuity and Change in Cultural Adaptation to Mountain Environments

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation | nr. 7
• 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 ... Lees meer

The Dynamics of Cultural Evolution

Michael Rosenberg

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation | nr. 12
• This book explores the nature of cultural and culturally structured social and behavioral entities, their evolutionary interactions, and the central r... Lees meer

African Landscapes

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation | nr. 4
• Landscape studies provide a crucial perspective into the interaction between humans and their environment, shedding insight on social, cultural, and e... Lees meer

Risk Management in a Hazardous Environment

Michael Bollig

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation | nr. 2
• A research focus on hazards, risk perception and risk minimizing strategies is relatively new in the social and environmental sciences. This volume by... Lees meer