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Human and Cultural Ecology: a Partial Bibliography University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Nebraska Anthropologist Anthropology, Department of 1980 HUMAN AND CULTURAL ECOLOGY: A PARTIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY Michael C. Gunn University of Nebraska-Lincoln Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/nebanthro Part of the Anthropology Commons Gunn, Michael C., "HUMAN AND CULTURAL ECOLOGY: A PARTIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY" (1980). Nebraska Anthropologist. 150. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/nebanthro/150 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Anthropology, Department of at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in Nebraska Anthropologist by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Published in THE NEBRASKA ANTHROPOLOGIST, Volume 5 (1980). Published by the Anthropology Student Group, Department of Anthropology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588 HUMAN AND CULTURAL ECOLOGY: A PARTIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY by Michael C. Gunn 28 Human and Cultural Ecology: A Partial Bibliography Michael C. Gunn The following bibliog~aphy.represents a partial listing b ks and articles deallng wlth human and cultural ecology. tO~1 to this bibliography are titles dealing with the con­ tral and methodological aspects of human/cultural ecology ep u licable to the broad field of anthropology. Also of '~~~y importance are titles dealing with the anthropological r~ of population demography. Topics of related interest era1 ecology, human adaptation, bioenergetics, etc.) are resented by selected titles. While the bibliography falls r short of total citation of all articles dealing with the orementioned topics, it should provide a firm base upon ich the student on researcher may build. Those individuals equiring further citation in more specialized areas are ged to consult the references contained with the articles f special interest. In addition, the bibliographies contained ithin Anderson 1973, Bennett 1976, Hardesty 1977, and Netting 977 are quite good and may be used to supplement many of e areas given secondary attention in the present work. The following are the abbreviations to be used within bibliography: PA American Journal of Physical Anthropology Am Anth American Anthropologist Am Anti American Antiquity Am J of Soc American Journal of Sociology Am Nat American Naturalist Am Scholar American Scholar Am Sci American Scientist Am Zool American Zoologist BAE Bureau of American Ethnology Current Anth Current Anthropology JAR Journal of Anthropological Research Sci Am Scientific American SW J of Anth Southwestern Journal of Anthropology UCASR University of California Archeological Survey Reports i UCPAAE University of California Publications in- American Archaeology and Ethnology Arch World Archaeology 29 Joan M.W. Abbott, Cultural Anthropology and the Man-Environment Rela­ 1970 tionship: An Historical Discussion. Kroeber Anthro- po1ogical Society Papers 43:10-31. Ackerman, E.A. 1959 population and Natural Resources. In: The Study of population, D.D. Duncan and P. M. Heuser, eds. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Adams, C. C. 1935 The Relations of General E~ology to Human Ecology. Ecology 16:316-335. 1940 Introductory Note to Symposium on Relation of Ecology to Human Welfare. Ecological Monographs 10:307-311. Adams, John 1966 Review of The Conditions of Agricultural Growth: The Economics of Agarian Change under Population Pressure, by E. Boserup. Ammalo of the American Academy 367:224-225. Adams, Robert M. 1962 A Synopsis of the Historical Demography and Ecology of the Siyala River Basin, Central Iraq. In: Civiliza­ tions in Desert Lands, R.B. Woodbury, ed. ITniversity of Utah Anthropological Papers, 62. A1ihan, MilIa Aissa 1938 Social Ecology. New York: Columbia University Press. Alland, Alexander, Jr. 1969 Ecology and Adaptation to Parasitic Diseases. In: Environment and Cultural Behavior: Ecological ~fudies in Cultural Anthropology, A. P. Bayala, ed. New York; Natural History Press pp. 80-89. 1970 Adaptation in Cultural Evolution: An Approach to Medical Anthropology. New York: Columbia University Press 1973 The Concept of Adaptation in Biological and Cultural Evolution. In: Handbook of Social and Cultural Anthropo1ogy-,-J. J. Honigmann, ed. Chicago: Rand-McNally, pp. 143-178. 30 C. Allee, w. principles of Animal Ecology. Philadephia: W.B. 1949 Saunders Anthropologist American Ecology and Anthropology: A Symposium. Am Anth 1962 64:15-59. mmerman, A. J. A 1975 Late Pleistocene Population Dynamics: An Alternative View. Human Ecologr 3:219-233. Anderson, J. N. 1973 Ecological Anthropology and Anthropological Ecology. In: Handbook of Social and Cultural Anthropology, J.]. Honigmann, ed. Chicago: Rand-McNally,. pp. 179- 240. Andrewartha, H. G. 1961 Introduction to the Study of Animal Populations. London: Methuen Angel, Lawrence J. 1969' The Bases of Paleodemography. AJPA 30:427-437 1971 Early Neolithic Skeletons from Catal Huyuk: Demography and Pathology. Anatolian Studies 21:77-98. 1972 Ecology and Population in the Eastern Mediterranean World Arch 4:88-105. Aschmann, Homer 1959 The Central Desert of Baja California: Demography and Ecology; !bero-Americana 42. Ashby, W. R. 1968 Principles of the Self-Organizing System. In: Modern Systems Research for the Behavioral ScientiSt, W. Buckley ed. Chicago: Aldine pp. 108-123 Audy, J. R. 1965 The Environment in Human Ecology: Artifacts - the Significance of Modified Environment. In: Environmental Determinants of Community-Well-Being. Scientific Publication, 123. Washington, D. C.: Pan American Health Organization. 31 Ayala, F. i~notype, Environment, and Population Numbers. 1968 Science 162:1435-1459 Bai~~~~ K'H~~an Ecology: A General Systems Approach. Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Texas Baj ema, c. J. 1971 Natural Selection in Human Populations, the Measurement of Ongoing Genetic Evolution in Contemporary Societies. New York: Wiley. Baker Paul T. 1962 The Application of Ecological Theory to Anthropology. Am Anth 64:15-22. Baker, Paul T. and J. S. Dutt 1972 Demographic Variables as Measures of Biological Adaptation: A Case Study of High Altittide Human Populations. In: The Structure of Human Populations. G. A. Harrison­ and J. A. Boyce, eds. Oxford: Clarendon Baker, Paul T. and M. A. Little 1976 Man in the Andes: A Multidisciplinary Study of High Altitude Quechua. Stroudsburg, Pa.: Dowden, Hutchinson, and Ross. Baker, Paul T. and W. T. Sanders 1972 Demographic Studies in Anthropology. Annual Review of Anthr<?polog~ 1:151-178. Baker, Paul T. and J. S. Weimer 1960 Early Civilizations, Subsistence, and Environment. In: City Invisible, C. H. Kraeling and R. ~1. Adams, eds. Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1967 The Biology of Human Adaptability. Oxford: Clarendon Baker, Roger G. 1968 Ecological Psychology: Concepts and Methods for Studying the Environment of Human Behavior. Stanford: Stanford University Press Barrows , Harlan H. 1923 Geography as Human Ecology. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 13:1-14 32 Frederik . fP Arch- Bart,h Ecological Adaptation and CuI ture Change J, 19 50 a e 01 0 g y . Am An til 5 : 3 38 - 3 39 . Swat, Ecologic Relationships of Ethnic Groups iO 1956 Northern Pakistan. Am Anth 63:1079-1089 ~ 481-498 tho1omew, G. A. and J. B. Birdsell Bar1953 Ecology and the Protohominids. Am Anth 55 V S B tes Marston a 1955 The Prevolence of People. New York: Charl Scribner and Sons /"nthropology, Medicine and Univer- 1959 The Ecology of Heal th. In: I. Goldston, ed. New YOYK: International sities Press. ~r Darwin, Ecology and Evolution. In: Evolution Aft Chicago 1960a ~ Vol. I, S. Tax ed. Chicago: University 0 Press pp. 547-568 (Iomy of at the Ec O Ramdon House 1960b The Forest and the Sea: A Look Nature and the Ecology of Man. New York: elections, Today: Press 1962 Human Ecology. In: Anthropology ~~ S. Tax, ed. Chicago: University of Chical1 pp. 222 - 235 f'rentice -Hall 1964 Man in Nature. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Baumhoff, Martin A. :t=="ornia 1963 Ecological Determinants of Aboriginal cal~ Populations. UCPAAE 49(2). e of the Bayliss-Smith, T. 1974 Constraints on population Growth: The ca~-t: Period. Polynesian Outlier Atolls in the Preconta Human Ecology 2:259-295 Beards ley, Richard K. C- e Growing 1964 Ecological and Social Parallels between R~~ium on Communities of Japan andSpain. In: symPOtl-rfield, ed. Community Studies in Anthropology-,-V. E. Seattle: University of Washington PresS 33 Barbara sender, Farming in Prehistory. New York: St. Martin's 1975 Press 1978 Gatherer-Hunter to Farming: A Social Perspective. World Arch 10(2) :204-222 Benedict, B. 1970 A Review of Social Regulation of Fertility. In: Demography and the Biological and Social Structure of Human Populations. Burg Wartenstein Symposium 50:22-30 Bennett, John W. 1944 The Interaction of Culture ~nd Environment in the Smaller Societies. Am Anth 46:461-478 1946 An Interpretation of the Scope and Implications of Social Scientific Research in Human Subsistence. Am Anth 48:553-57~ 1967 On the Cultural Ecology of Indian Cattle. Current Anth 8:251-252 1973 Ecosystemic Effects of Extensive Agriculture. In: Annual Review of Anthropology, 2. 1974 Anthropological Contributions to the Cultural Ecology and Management of Water Resources. In: Man and Water, D. James, ed. Lexington, Jr.: University of Kentucky Press. 1976 The Ecological Transition. New York: Pergamon. Bennett, K. A. 1973 On the Estimation of Some Demographic Characteristics on a Prehistoric Population from the American Southwest. AJPA 39:223-2~1
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