Ecological Anthropology - History and Theory:

Overview, Julian Steward, and Marvin Harris

 

Orlove, Benjamin S., 1980. "Ecological Anthropology," Annual Review of Anthropology 9:234-273.

Little, Paul, 1999. "Environments and Environmentalism in Anthropological Research: Facing the New Millennium," Annual Review of Anthropology 28:

Sponsel, Leslie E., 1997. "Ecological Anthropology," in Dictionary of Anthropology, Thomas Barfield, ed. London, UK: Blackwell Scientific Publications, pp. 137-140.

Murphy, Robert F., 1981. "Julian Steward," in Totems and Teachers: Perspectives on the History of Anthropology. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, pp. 171-206.

Murphy, Robert F., 1991. "Anthropology at Columbia: A Reminiscence," Dialectical Anthropology 16:65-81.

Harris, Marvin, 1994. "Cultural Materialism Is Alive and Well and Won't Go Away Until Something Better Comes Along," in Assessing Cultural Anthropology, Robert Borofsky, ed. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, pp. 62-76.

 

Other Overviews

Lowie, Robert H., 1917. "Culture and Environment," in his Culture and Ethnology. New York, NY: McMurtrie, pp. 47-65.

Bates, Marston, 1953. "Human Ecology," in Anthropology Today, Alfred L. Kroeber, ed. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, pp. 700-713.

Helm, June, 1961. "The Ecological Approach in Anthropology," American Journal of Sociology 67:630-639.

Vayda, Andrew P., and Roy A. Rappaport, 1968. "Ecology, Cultural and Non-cultural," in Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, J.S. Clifton, ed. Boston, MA: Houghton-Mifflin, pp. 476-497.

Vayda, Andrew P., and B.J. McCay, 1975. "New Directions in Ecology and Ecological Anthropology," Annual Review of Anthropology 4:293-306.

Anderson, James N., 1974. "Ecological Anthropology and Anthropological Ecology," in Handbook of Social and Cultural Anthropology, John J. Honigmann, ed. Chicago, IL: Rand McNally & Co., pp. 477-497.

Kottak, Conrad, 1999. "The New Ecological Anthropology," American Anthropologist 101(1):23-35.

Headland, Thomas N., 1997. "Revisionism in Ecological Anthropology," Current Anthropology 38(4):605-630.

Moran, Emilio F., 1996. "Environmental Anthropology," in Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology, David Levinson and Melvin Ember, eds. Henry Holt & CO. 2:383-389.

Ellen, Roy F., 2001, "Environment and Anthropology," International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, N.J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes, eds., San Diego, CA: Academic Press 7:4556-4560.

Herzfeld, Michael, 2001, "Environmentalisms," Anthropology: Theoretical Practice in Culture and Society, Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, Chapter 8, pp. 171-191.

Porter, P.W., 2001, "Ecology, Cultural," International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, N.J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes, eds., San Diego, CA: Academic Press 6:4035-4041.

Ramakrishnan, P.S., 2001, "Ethnobiology," International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, N.J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes, eds., San Diego, CA: Academic Press 7:4846-4852.

Leach, Melissa, and James Fairhead, 2002, "Anthropology, Culture, and Environment," Exotic No More: Anthropology on the Front Lines, Jeremy MacClancy, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, Chapter 11, pp. 209-226.

 

Steward

Clemmer Richard O., and L. Daniel Myers, 1999. "Introduction,"
in Julian Steward and the Great Basin: The Making of an Anthropologist, Clemmer, Richard O., L. Daniel Myers, and Mary Elizabeth Rudden, eds. Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press, pp. ix-xxii.

Hanc, Joseph Robert, 1981. "The Uses of Ecology: Historical and Scientific Arguments in the Work of Julian H. Steward," Journal of the Steward Anthropological Society 13(1):59-75.

Murphy, Robert F., 1977. "Introduction: The Anthropological Theories of Julian H. Steward," in Evolution and Ecology: Essays on Social Transformation, Jane C. Steward and Robert F. Murphy, eds. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1-39.

Netting, Robert McC., 1996. "Cultural Ecology," in Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology, David Levinson and Melvin Ember, eds. New York, NY: Henry Holt & Co. 1:267-271.

Shimkin, Demetri B., 1964. "Julian H. Steward: A Contributor to Fact and Theory in Cultural Anthropology," in Process and Pattern in Culture: Essays in Honor of Julian H. Steward, Robert A. Manners, ed. Chicago, IL: Aldine Publishing Co., pp. 1-17

Sponsel, Leslie E., 1997. "Julian Steward (1902-1972)," in Dictionary of Anthropology, Thomas Barfield, ed. London, UK: Blackwell Scientific Publications, pp. 448-450.

Sponsel, Leslie E., 2005, “Julian H. Steward,” in Encyclopedia of Anthropology, H. James Birx, ed., Thousand Oaks, CA; AltaMira Press.

Steward, Julian H., 1937. "Ecological Aspects of Southwestern Society," Anthropos 32(1):87-104.

Steward, Julian H., 1955. "The Concept and Method of Cultural Ecology," in his Theory of Culture Change: The Methodology of Multilinear Evolution. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, pp. 30-42

Steward, Julian H., 1968. "Cultural Ecology," in International Encyclopedia of Social Sciences, David Sills, ed. New York, NY: Macmillan 4:337-344.

Steward, Julian H., and Robert F. Murphy, 1955. "Tappers and Trappers: Parallel Processes in Acculturation," Economic Development and Culture Change 4:335-355.

 

Harris

Friedman, Jonathan, 1974. "Marxism, Structuralism, and Vulgar Materialism," Man 9(3):444-469.

Harris, Marvin, 1966. "The Cultural Ecology of India's Sacred Cattle," Current Anthropology 7:51-66.

Harris, Marvin, 1976. "History and Significance of the Emic/Etic Distinction," Annual Review of Anthropology 5:329-350.

Harris, Marvin, 1987. "Cultural Materialism: Alarms and Excursions," in Waymarks, Kenneth Moore, ed. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, pp. 107-126.

Harris, Marvin, 1996. "Cultural Materialism," in Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology, David Levinson and Melvin Ember, eds. New York, NY: Henry Holt & Co. 1:277-281.

Johnson, Allen, 1995. "Explanation and Ground Truth: The Place of Cultural Materialism in Scientific Anthropology," in Science, Materialism, and the Study of Culture, Martin F. Murphy and Maxine L. Margolis, eds. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press, pp. 7-20.

Murphy, Martin F., and Maxine L. Margolis, 1995. "An Introduction to Cultural Materialism," in Science, Materialism, and the Study of Culture, Martin F. Murphy and Maxine L. Margolis, eds. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press, pp. 1-4.

Price, Barbara J., 1982. "Cultural Materialism: A Theoretical Review," American Antiquity 47(4):709-741.

Ross, Eric B., 1980. "Introduction," in Beyond the Myths of Culture: Essays in Cultural Materialism, Eric B. Ross, ed. New York, NY: Academic Press, pp. xix-xxix.

Sanderson, Stephen K., 1997. "Marvin Harris (1927- )," in The Dictionary of Anthropology, Thomas Barfield, ed. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, pp.232-233.

Vayda, Andrew P., 1987. "Explaining What People Eat: A Review Article [Good to Eat by Marvin Harris]," Human Ecology 15(4):493-509.

Other Sources

Balee, William, 1996. "Anthropology," in Greening the College Curriculum: A Guide to Environmental Teaching in the Liberal Arts, Jonathan Collett and Stephen Karakashian, eds. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, pp. 24-49.

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Bennett, John W., 1976. "The Ecological Transition: From Equilibrium to Disequilibrium," in his The Ecological Transition: Cultural Anthropology and Human Adaptation. New York, NY: Pergamon Press, pp. 123-155.

Biersack, Aletta, 1999. "Introduction: From the "New Ecology" to the New Ecologies," American Anthropologist 101(1):5-18.

Bishop, Ryan, 1996. "Postmodernism," in Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology, David Levinson and Melvin Ember, eds. New York, NY: Henry Holt and Co. 3:993-998.

Brosius, J. Peter, 1999. "Analyses and Interventions: Anthropological Engagements with Environmentalism," Current Anthropology 40(3):277-309.

Colby, Benjamin N., 1996. "Cognitive Anthropology," in Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology, David Levinson and Melvin Ember, eds. New York, NY: Henry Holt and Co. 1:209-215.

Cronk, L., 1991. "Human Behavioral Ecology," Annual Review of Anthropology 20:25-53.

Crumley, Carole, 1996. "Historical Ecology," in Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology, David Levinson and Melvin Ember, eds. New York, NY: Henry Holt and Co. 2:558-560.

Escobar, Arturo, 1999. "After Nature: Steps to an Antiessentialist Political Ecology," Current Anthropology 40(1):1-30.

Fowler, Catherine S., 1977. "Ethnoecology," in Ecological Anthropology, Donald Hardesty, New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, pp. 215-243.

Frake, Charles O., 1962. "Cultural Ecology and Ethnography," American Anthropologist 64(1):53-59.

Glacken, Clarence J., 1956. "Changing Ideas of the Habitable World," in Man's Role in Changing the Face of the Earth, William L. Thomas, Jr., ed. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, pp. 70-92.

Grove, Richard H., 1992. "Origins of Western Environmentalism," Scientific American 267(1):42-47.

Hunn, Eugene, 1996. "Ethnozoology," in Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology David Levinson and Melvin Ember, eds. New York, NY: Henry Holt and Co. 2:451-456.

Hvalkof, Soren, and Arturo Escobar, 1998. "Nature, Political Ecology, and Social Problems: Toward an Academic and Political Agenda," in Building a New Biocultural Synthesis: Political-Economic Perspectives on Human Biology, Alan H. Goodman and Thomas L. Leatherman, eds. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, pp. 425-450.

Johnston, Barbara Rose, 1995. "Human Rights and the Environment," Human Ecology 23:111-123.

Lett, James, 1996. "Emic/Etic Distinctions," in Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology, David Levinson and Melvin Ember, eds. New York, NY: Henry Holt & Co. 2:382-383.

May, R.M., and J. Seeger, 1986. "Ideas in Ecology," American Scientist 74:256-267.

Moran, Emilio F., 1992. "Minimum Data for Comparative Human Ecological Studies: Examples from Studies in the Amazon," Advances in Human Ecology 2:191-213.

O'Connor, J., 1988. "Capitalism, Nature and Socialism: A Theoretical Introduction," Capitalism, Nature and Socialism 1:11-38.

Odum, Eugene P., 1971. "The Emergence of Ecology as a New Integrative Discipline," Science 195:1289-1293.

Odum, Eugene P., 1992. "Great Ideas in Ecology for the 1990s," BioScience 42(7):542-545.

Ortner, Shirley, 1984. "Theory in Anthropology Since the Sixties," Comparative Studies in Society and History 26:126-166.

Rappaport, Roy A., 1971. "Nature, Culture, and Ecological Anthropology," in Man, Culture and Society, Harry L. Shapiro, ed. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, pp. 237-267.

Rappaport, Roy A., 1984. "Epilogue," Pigs for the Ancestors: Ritual in the Ecology of a New Guinea People. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, pp. 299-479.

Sahlins, Marshall, 1964. "Culture and Environment: The Study of Cultural Ecology," in Horizons of Anthropology, Sol Tax, ed. Chicago, IL: Aldine, pp. 215-231.

Scoones, I., 1999. "New Ecology and the Social Sciences: What Prospects for a Fruitful Engagement?," Annual Review of Anthropology 28:

Speth, William W., 1978. "The Anthropogeographic Theory of Franz Boas," Anthropos 73(1/2):1-31.

Sponsel, Leslie E., 1987. "Cultural Ecology and Environmental Education," Journal of Environmental Education 19(1):31-42.

Vayda, Andrew P., 1988. "Actions and Consequences as Objects of Explanation in Human Ecology," Environment, Technology and Society 51:2-7.

Vayda, Andrew P., 1996. "Methods and Explanations in the Study of Human Actions and their Environmental Effects," Jakarta, Indonesia: CIFOR/WWF Special Publication, pp. 1-44.

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Selected books by or about Steward

Clemmer, Richard O., L. Daniel Myers, and Mary Elizabeth Rudden, eds., 1999. Julian Steward and the Great Basin: The Making of an Anthropologist. Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press.

Kerns, Virginia, 2003, Scenes from the High Desert: Julian Steward’s Life and Theory, Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.

Manners, Robert A., ed., 1964. Process and Pattern in Culture: Essays in Honor of Julian H. Steward. Chicago, Il: Aldine Publishing Co.

Steward, Jane C., and Robert F. Murphy, eds., 1977. Evolution and Ecology: Essays on Social Transformation. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.

Steward, Julian H., 1938. Basin-Plateau Aboriginal Sociopolitical Groups. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 120.

Steward, Julian H., ed. 1946-1950. Handbook of South American Indians. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 143.

Steward, Julian H., 1955. Theory of Culture Change: The Methodology of Multilinear Evolution. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.

Steward, Julian H., 1973. Alfred Kroeber. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.

Steward, Julian H., and Louis C. Faron, 1959. Native Peoples of South America. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.

Selected books by or about Harris

Harris, Marvin, 1964. The Nature of Cultural Things. New York, NY: Random House.

Harris, Marvin, 1968. The Rise of Anthropological Theory: A History of Theories of Culture. New York, NY: Crowell.

Harris, Marvin, 1974. Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture. New York, NY: Random House.

Harris, Marvin, 1977. Cannibals and Kings: The Origins of Culture. New York, NY: Random House.

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

Harris, Marvin, 1985. Good to Eat: The Riddles of Food and Culture. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster.

Harris, Marvin, 1999. Theories of Culture in Postmodern Times. Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press.

Harris, Marvin, and Eric Ross, eds., 1987. Food and Evolution: Towards a Theory of Human Food Habits. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.

Harris, Marvin, and Eric Ross, 1987. Death, Sex, and Fertility: Population Regulation in Pre-Industrial and Developing Societies. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.

Murphy, Martin F., and Maxine L. Margolis, eds., 1995. Science, Materialism, and the Study of Culture. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press.

Ross, Eric B., ed., 1980. Beyond the Myths of Culture: Essays in Cultural Materialism. New York, NY: Academic Press.