Cultural Ecology Proseminar

University of Minnesota

Geography 8001

Case Studies and Longer Methodological Works

Each member of the seminar will read and write a review of one of these works, or a work mutually agreed upon between student and instructors. We thank Bill Lynn for suggesting some of the works included in this list. We have added others through a search under Human Ecology and Ecofeminism in LUMINA. We suggest that you look at two or three possibilities before deciding on which one to read. You may find monograph-length case studies more useful than edited volumes containing chapters by many individuals.

Adams, Carol J. 1990. The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory. New York: Continuum Press.

Adams, Carol J., ed., 1993. Ecofeminisim and the Sacred. New York: Continuum Press.

Adams, W. M. 1990. Green Development: Environment and Sustainability in the Third World. London: Routledge.

Attfield, R., and B. Wilkins, eds., 1992. International Justice and the Third World: Studies in the Philosophy of Development. London: Routledge.

Bahuchet, Serge. 1985. Pygmees Aka et la Foret Centrafricaine: Ethnologie Ecologique. Paris: SELAF.

Bennett, Jane, and William Chaloupka, eds., 1993. In the Nature of Things: Language, Politics, and the Environment. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press.

Bennett, John W. 1969. Northern Plainsmen: Adaptive Strategy and Agrarian Life. Chicago: Aldine Publishing Co.

Bennett, John W. 1976. The Ecological Transition: Cultural Anthropology and Human Adaptation. New York: Pergamon Press.

Bhasin, Veena. 1989. Ecology, Culture and Change: Tribals of Sikkim Himalayas. New Delhi: Inter-India Publications.

Bigwood, Carol. 1993. Earth Muse: Feminism, Nature, and Art. Philadelphia, Temple University Press.

Bishop, Barry. 1990. Karnali under Stress: Livelihood Strategies and Seasonal Rhythm in a Changing Nepal Himalaya. Chicago: University of Chicago, Geography Research Paper No. 228-229.

Blaikie, Piers. 1985. The Political Economy of Soil Erosion in Developing Countries. London: Longman.

Blaikie, Piers, and Harold C. Brookfield. 1987. Land Degradation and Society. London: Methuen.

Booth, D. 1993. Valuing Nature: The Decline and Preservation of Old Growth Forests. Rowan and Littlefield.

Boserup, Ester. 1970. Woman's Role in Economic Development. London: George Allen and Unwin, Ltd.

Boserup, Ester. 1981. Population and Technological Change. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Bovin, Mette, and Leif Manger, eds., 1990. Adaptive Strategies in Afncan Arid Lands. Proceedings from a Seminar at the Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, Uppsala, Sweden.

Bowers, C. A. 1993. Education, Cultural Myths, and the Ecological Crisis: Toward Deep Changes. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.

Boyden, Stephen V. 1992. Biohistory: The Interplay between Human Society and the Biosphere. Paris: UNESCO.

Braudel, Fernand, 1972/3. The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 2 vols.

Brookfield, Harold C. and Paula Brown. 1963. Struggle for Land: Agriculture and Group Territories among the Chimbu of the New Guinea Highlands. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.

Brunhes, Jean. 1952. Human Geography. London: G. G. Harrap.

Butzer, Karl W. 1964. Environment and Archeology: An Introduction to Pleistocene Geography. Chicago: Aldine.

Butzer, Karl W. 1976. Early Hydraulic Civilization in Egypt: A Study in Cultural Ecology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Butzer, Karl W. 1992. Archaeology as Human Ecology. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Callenbach, Ernest. 1990. Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston. New York: Bantam Books. [fiction]

Callicott, J.B. 1989. In Defense of the Land Ethic: Essays in Environmental Philosophy. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.

Carlstein, Tommy. 1982. Time Resources, Society and Ecology: On the Capacity for Human Interaction in Space and Time. Preindustrial Society Series Vol. 1, London: George Allen and Unwin.

Carr, Claudia J. 1977. Pastoralism in Crisis: The Dasanetch and Their Ethiopian Lands. University of Chicago, Department of Geography Research Paper 180.

Cartledge, Bryan, ed., 1992. Monitoring the Environment. Oxford University Press.

Chapple, Christopher Key, ed., 1994. Ecological Prospects: Scientific, Religious and Aesthetic Perspectives. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.

Chayanov, A. V. 1966. The Theory of Peasant Economy. Homewood, IL: American Economic Association.

Chibnik, Michael. 1994. Risky Rivers: The Economics and Politics of Floodplain Farming in Amazonia. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

Clarke, William C. 1971. Place and People: An Ecology of a New Guinean Community. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.

Clarkson, J. D. 1968. The Cultural Ecology of a Chinese Village, Cameron Highlands, Malaysia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Collinson, M. P. 1982. Farming Systems Research in Eastern Africa: The Experience of CIMMYT and Some National Agricultural Research Services, 1976-1981. MSU International Development Paper No. 3.

Conklin, Harold. 1957. Hanunoo Agriculture. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization.

Croll, Elisabeth, and David Parkin. 1992. Bush Base, Forest Farm: Culture, Environment and Development. London: Routledge.

Crosby, A.W. 1986. Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Curry-Lindahl, Kai. 1972. Conservation for Survival: An Ecological Strategy. New York: Morrow.

Davis, Shelton H., ed., 1993. Indigenous Views of Land and the Environment. Washington, DC: The World Bank.

Denevan, William M., Kent Mathewson, and Gregory Knapp, eds., 1987. PreHispanic Agricultural Fields in the Andean Region. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, International Series.

Descola, Philippe. 1994. In the Society of Nature: A Native Ecology of Amazonia. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Diamond, Irene, and Gloria Feman Orenstein, eds., 1990. Reweaving the World: The Emergence of Ecofeminism. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.

Dietz, Ton. 1987. Pastoralists in Dire Straits. Nederlandse Geografische Studies 49, Amsterdam: Koninklijk Nederlands Aardrijksundig Genootschap.

Doolittle, William E. 1988. Pre-Hispanic Occupance in the Valley of Sonora, Mexico: Archaeological Confirmation of Early-Spanish Reports. Tucson: University of Arizona Anthropological Paper No. 48.

Durning, Alan Thein. 1992. Guardians of the Land: Indigenous Peoples and the Health of the Earth. Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute.

Dyson-Hudson, Rada. 1985. South Turkana Nomadism: Coping .vith an Unpredictably Varying Environment. New Haven, CT: Human Relations Area Files.

Edgerton, Robert B. 1971. The Individual in Cultural Adaptation. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Universitv of California Press.

Eggert, Jim. 1992. Meadowlark Economics: Perspectives on Ecology, Work, and Learning. Armonk, NY: M.E.-Sharp.

Ehrenfeld, David. 1993. Beginning Again: People and Nature in the New Millennium. New York: Oxford University Press.

Ellen, Roy. 1982. Environment Subsistence and System. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Engel, J. R., and J. G. Engel, eds., 1990. Sustainable Development and Deep Ecology, Ethics of Environment and Development: Global Challenge, lnternational Response. Tuscon, AZ: University of Arizona Press.

Eyre, S. R., and G. R. J. Jones, eds., 1966. Geography as Human Ecology. London: Edward Arnold.

Flannery, Kent V. 1972. The cultural evolution of civilizations. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 3:399-426; plus a selection of his work appearing in Prehistoric Agnculture.

Forde, C. Daryll. 1934. Habitat, Economy and Society. London: Methuen and Co., Ltd.

Fried, Morton H. 1967. The Evolution of Political Society. New York: Random House.

Gaard, Greta, ed., 1993. Ecofeminism: Women, Animals, and Nature. Philadelphia,: Temple University Press.

Gabarino, James. 1992. Toward a Sustainable Society: An Economic, Social, and Environmental Agenda for Our Children's Future. Chicago: Noble Press.

Gadgil, Madhav. 1992. This Fissured Land: An Ecological History of India. Delhi: Oxford University Press.

Geertz, Clifford. 1963. Agricultural Involution: The Processes of Ecological Change in Indonesia. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.

Giblin, James L. 1992. The Politics of Environmental Control in Northeastern Tanzania, 1840-1940. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Gliessman, S. R., ed., 1990. Agroecology: Researching the Ecological Basis for SustainableAgriculture. Berlin:Springer-Verlag.

Goldschmidt, Walter R. 1966. Comparative Functionalism. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.

Goldschmidt, Walter R. 1976. The Culture and Behavior of the Sebei. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.

Gore, Albert. 1992. Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin.

Gourou, Pierre. 1954. The Tropical World. New York: John Wiley.

Gritzner, Jeffrey A. 1988. The West Afncan Sahel: Human Agency and Environmental Change. Chicago: University of Chicago, Committee on Geographical Studies.

Grossman, Lawrence. 1984. Peasants, Subsistence Ecology, and Development in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Hardesty, Donald L. 1977. Ecological Anthropology. New York: John Wiley and Sons.

Harris, Marvin. 1979. Cultural Materialism: The Struggle for a Science of Culture. New York: Random House.

Hecht, Susanna B. 1982. Cattle Ranching Development in the Eastern Amazon: Evaluation of a Development Policy. Ph.D. thesis, University of California, Berkeley, University Microfilms International, 1983.

Hecht, Susanna B., and Alexander Cockburn. 1989. The Fate of the Forest: Developers, Destroyers, and Defenders of the Amazon. London: Verso.

Heathcote, R. Leslie. 1965. Back of Bourke: A Study of Land Appraisal and Settlement in Semi-Arid Australia. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.

Hjort af Ornas, Anders, ed., 1992. Security in African Drylands: Research, Development and Policy. Uppsala: Uppsala University.

Johnson, Douglas H., and David M. Anderson, eds., 1989. The Ecology of Survival: Case Studies from Northeast African History. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Kingdon, Jonathan. 1993. Self-made Man: Human Evolution from Eden to Extinction. New York: Wiley.

Knapp, Gregory. 1984. Soil, Slope, and Water in the Equatorial Andes: A Study of Prehistoric Agricultural Adaptation. Ph.D. thesis, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Knapp, Gregory. 1991. Andean Ecology: Adaptive Dynamics in Ecuador. Boulder: Westview Press.

Knight, C. Gregory. 1974. Ecology and Change: Rural Modernization in an Afncan Community. New York: Academic Press.

Kroeber, Alfred L. 1939. Cultural and Natural Areas of Native North America. University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 38, reprint edition, 1963, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.

Kropotkin, Piotr A. 1902. Mutual Aid: A Factor in Evolution. London: William Heinemann.

Krupnik, Igor Il'ich. 1993. Arctic Adaptations: Native Whalers and Reindeer Herders of Northern Eurasia. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England.

Kuhlken, Robert. 1994. Agricultural Terracing in the Fiji Islands. Ph.D. thesis, Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge.

Lee, R. B., 1979. The !Kung San: Men, Women, and Work in a Foraging Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

LePlay, P. G. Frederic, 1879. Les Ouvriers Europeens. Tours: A. Mame.

Lewis, Martin W. 1992. Green Delusions: An Environmental Critique of Radical Environmentalism. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Lewis, Martin W. 1992. Wagering the Land: Ritual Capital and Environmental Degradation in the Cordillera of Northern Luzon, 1900-1985. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Little, Peter D. and Michael M Horowitz, with A. Endre Nyerges, 1987. Lands at Risk in the Third World: Local-Level Perspectives. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Martin, Calvin. 1992. In the Spirit of the Earth: Rethinking History and Time. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press.

Mellor, Mary. 1992. Breaking the Boundaries: Towards a Feminist Green Socialism. London: Virago.

Merchant, Carolyn. 1983. The Death of Nature, Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution. San Francisco: Harper.

Merchant, Carolyn. 1989. Ecological Revolutions: Nature, Gender, and Science in New England. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press.

Merchant, Carolyn. 1992. Radical Ecology: The Search for a Livable World. New York: Routledge.

Mies, Maria, and Vandana Shiva. 1993. Ecofeminism. Halifax, NS: Femwood Publications.

Mighetto, L. 1991. Wild Animals and American Environmental Ethics. Tuscon, AZ: University of Arizona Press.

Milton, Kay, ed., 1993. Environmentalism: The View from Anthropology. London: Routledge.

Mitchell, William. 1991. Peasants on the Edge: Crop, Cult and Crisis in the Andes. Austin: University of Texas Press.

Moran, Emilio F. 1993. Through Amazon Eyes: The Human Ecology of Amazonian Population. Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press.

Naess, A. 1989. Ecology, Community and Lifestyle: Outline of a Ecosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Nash, R. F. 1989. The Rights of Nature: A History of Environmental Ethics. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press.

Netting, Robert McC. 1968. Hill Farmers of Nigeria: Cultural Ecology of the Kofyar of the los Plateau. Seattle: University of Washington Press.

Netting, Robert McC. 1977. Cultural Ecology. Menlo Park, CA: Cummings Publishing House.

Netting, Robert McC. 1993. Smallholders, Householders: Farm Families and the Ecology of Intensive, Sustainable Agriculture. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Newman, James L. 1970. The Ecological Basis for Subsistence Change among the Sandawe of Tanzania. Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences.

Nietschmann, Bernard. 1973. Between Land and Water: The Subsistence Ecology of the Miskito Indians, Eastern Nicaragua. New York: Seminar Press.

Norwood, Vera. 1993. Made from This Earth: American Women and Nature. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina.

Nugent, Stephen L. 1993. Amazonian Caboclo Society: An Essay on Invisibility and Peasant Economy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Oliver, Synunes C. 1961. Ecology and Cultural Continuity as Contributing Factors in the Social Organization of the Plains Indians. University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, 48.

Pepper, David. 1993. Eco-socialism: From Deep Ecology to Social Justice. London Routledge.

Plant, Judith, ed., 1989. Healing the Wounds: The Promise of Ecofeminism. Philadelphia: New Society Publishers.

Plumwood, Val. 1992, Ecofeminism and the Mastery of Nature. London: Routledge.

Rappaport, Roy A. 1968. Pigs for the Ancestors. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Reclus, J. J. Elisee. 1876-1887. Nouvelle Geographie Universelle: la Terre et les Hommes. Paris: Librairie Hachette.

Saarinen, Thomas. 1966. Perception of Drought Hazard on the Great Plains. Chicago: University of Chicago, Department of Geography Research Paper No. 106.

Sachs, Wolfgang, ed., 1993. Global Ecology: The New Arena of Political Conflict. London: Zed Books.

Sahlins, Marshall. 1976. Culture and Practical Reason. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Sahlins, Marshall D., and Elman R. Service. 1957. Evolution and Culture. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Sayers, Sean, and Peter Osborne, eds., 1990. Socialism, Feminism, and Philosophy: A Radical Philosophy Reader. London: Routledge.

Scott, James C. 1976. The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion, and Subsistence in Southeast Asia. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Scudder, Thayer. 1962. The Ecology of the Gwembe Tonga. Manchester: Kariba Studies Series.

Seager, Joni. 1993. Earth Follies: Coming to Feminist Terms with the Global Environmental Crisis. New York: Routledge.

Service, Elman R. 1962. Primitive Social Organization. New York: Random House.

Shaner, W. W., P. F. Philipp, and W. R. Shmehl. 1981. Farming Systems Research and Development. Boulder: Westview Press.

Sheridan, T. E. 1988. Where the Dove Calls: The Political Ecology of a Peasant Corporate Community in Northwestern Mexico. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

Simmons, I. G. 1993. Interpreting Nature: Cultural Constructions of the Environment. London: Routledge.

Smith, Andrew B. 1992. Pastoralism in Africa, Origins and Development Ecology. London: Hurst & Co.

Soule, M. E., ed., 1986. Conservation Biology: The Science of Scarcity and Diversity. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates.

Steiner, Dieter, and Markus Nauser, eds., 1993. Human Ecology: Fragments of Antifragmentary Views of the World. London: Routledge.

Stevens, Stanley F. 1993. Claiming the High Ground: Sherpas, Subsistence, and Environmental Change in the Highest Himalaya. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Steward, Julian H. 1938. Basin-Plateau Aboriginal Socio-political Groups. Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 120, reprint ed., 1970, Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.

Steward, Julian. 1955. Theory of Culture Change. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Stone, Christopher D. 1993. The Gnat is Older than Man: Global Environment and Human Agenda. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Stonich, S. C. 1993. I Am Destroying the Land!: The Political Ecology of Poverty and Environmental Destruction in Honduras. Boulder: Westview Press.

Toulmin, Camilla. 1992. Cattle, Women, and Wells: Managing Household Survival in the Sahel. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Trapnell, Colin. 1943. The Soils, Vegetation and Agriculture of North-Eastern Rhodesia. Lusaka: Government Printer.

Turner II, B. L. 1983. Once Beneath the Forest: Prehistoric Terracing in the Rio Bec Region of the Maya Lowlands. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Turner II, B. L., ed., 1990. The Earth as Transformed by Human Action. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Turner II, B. L., Goran Hyden, and Robert W. Kates. 1993. Population Growth and Agricultural Change in Africa. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida.

Waddell, Eric. 1977. The Mound Builders: Agricultural Practices, Environment and Society in the Central Highlands of New Guinea. Seattle: University of Washington Press.

Walter, Robert. 1973. Be Human or Die: A Study of Humanism in European History as the Background to a Philosophy of Human Ecology. London: C. Knight.

Wapner, S., Saul B. Cohen and B. Kaplan. 1976. Experiencing the Environment. New York: Plenum Press.

Warren, K. J., ed., 1991. Hypatia (Special issue ecological feminism). Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.

Watts, Michael. 1983. Silent Violence: Food, Famine and Peasantry in Northern Nigeria. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.

Wenz, P. S. 1988. Environmental Justice. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press

White, Gilbert F., ed., 1974. Natural Hazards: Local, National, Global. New York: Oxford University Press.

White, Leslie A. 1959. The Evolution of Culture. New York: McGraw Hill Book Co.

Williams, Nancy M., and Graham Baines, eds., 1993. Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Wisdom for Sustainable Development. Canberra, Australia: Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, Australian National University.

Winpenny, James T., ed., 1991. Development Research: The Environmental Challenge. London: Overseas Development Institute.

Wisner, Ben. 1977. The Human Ecology of Drought in Eastern Kenya. Ph.D. thesis, Clark University, Worcester, MA.

Worster, Donald. 1977. Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Zelinsky, Wilbur, Leszek A. Kosinski and R. Mansell Prothero, eds., 1970. Geography and a Crowding World. New York: Oxford University Press.


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