CULTURAL ECOLOGY OF THAILAND: SELECTED READINGS*

INTRODUCTION

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

_____, 1994. "Cultural Ecology," Blackwell Dictionary of Cultural Anthropology, Thomas Barfield, ed.

Vayda, Andrew P., 1983. "Progressive Contextualization: Methods for Research in Human Ecology," Human Ecology 11(3):265-281.

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

Wilson, Edward O., 1989. "Threats to Biodiversity," Scientific American 261(3):108-117.

HISTORY AND THEORY OF CULTURAL ECOLOGY

Ortner, Sherry B., 1984. "Theory in Anthropology Since the Sixties," Comparative Studies in Society and History 26(1):126-166.

Shanklin, Eugenia, 1985. "Sustenance and Symbol: Anthropological Studies of Domestication Animals," Annual Review of Anthropology 14:375-403.

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

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

Vayda, Andrew P., 1993. "Ecosystems and Human Actions," in Humans as Components of Ecosystems, Mark J. McDonnell and Steward T.A. Pickett, NY: Springer-Verlag, pp. 61-71.

Jameison, Neil L., and George W. Lovelace, 1985. "Cultural Values and Human Ecology: Some Initial Considerations," in Cultural Values and Human Ecology in Southeast Asia, Karl L. Hutterer, A. Terry Rambo, and George Locvelace, eds., Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia, pp. 27-54.

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

Worster, Donald, 1988. "Appendix: Doing Environmental History," in The Ends of the Earth: Perspectives on Modern Environmental History, Donald Worster, ed., NY: Cambridge University Press, pp.
289-307.

CASE STUDIES

Padoch, Christine, and Andrew P. Vayda, 1984. "Patterns of Resource Use and Human Settlement in Tropical Forests," in Tropical Forest Ecosystems, Frank Golley, ed., pp. 301-313.

Kirch, Patrick, 1984. "Polynesian Prehistory: Cultural Adaptation in Island Ecosystems," American Scientist 68:39-48.

Nietschmann, Bernard, 1972. "Hunting and Fishing Focus among the Miskito Indians, Eastern Nicaragua," Human Ecology 1(1):41-67.

Ruddle, Kenneth, 1980. "A Preliminary Survey of Fish Cultivation in Ricefields, with Special Reference to West Java, Indonesia," Bulletin of the National Museum of Ethnology Osaka 5(3):801-822.

Rappaport, Roy, 1967. "Ritual Regulation of Environmental Relations Among a New Guinea People," Ethnology 6:17-30.

Reichel-Dolmatoff, Gerardo, 1976. "Cosmology as Ecological Analysis: A View from the Rain Forest," Man 11:307-318.

Lansing, Stephen J., and James N. Kremer, 1993. "Emergent Properties of Balinese Water Temple Networks: Coadaptation on a Rugged Fitness Landscape," American Anthropologist 95(1):97-114.

Barth, Frerik, 1956. "Ecological Relationships of Ethnic Groups in Swat, North Pakistan," American Anthropologist 58:1079-1089.

Homer-Dixon, Thomas F., Jeffrey H. Boutwell, and George W. Rathjens, 1993. "Environmental Change and Violent Conflict," Scientific American 268(2):38-45.

SOUTHEAST ASIA

Noble, Allen G., 1985. "The Physical Environment," in Southeast Asia: REalm of Contrasts, Ashok K. Dutt, ed., Boulder: Westview Press, pp. 36-51.

Peltzer, Karl, 1968. "Man's Role in Changing the Landscape of Southeast Asia," Journal of Asian Studies 27:269-279.

Capistrano, Ana Doris, and Gerald G. Marten, 1986. "Agriculture in Southeast Asia," in Traditional Agriculture in Southeast Asia, Gerald G. Marten, ed., pp. 6-19.

Thapa, Gopal B., and Karl E. Weber, 1990. "Actors and Factors of Deforestation in Tropical Asia," Environmental Conservation 17(1):19-27.

Potter, Lesley, 1993. "The Onslaught on the Forests in South-East Asia," in South-East Asia's Environmental Future: The Search for Sustainability, Harold Brookfield and Yvonne Buron, eds., Tokyo: United Nations University Press, pp. 103-123.

Brookfield, Harold, 1993. "Sustainable Environmental Futures of South-East Asia," in Asia's New Initiatives in the 1990s: The Peace Process, Economic Cooperation, Management of the Environment, pp. 194-224.

Concepcion, Mercedes B., 1993. "Population Growth in South-East Asia: Pushing the Limits," in South-East Asia's Environmental Future: The Search for Sustainability, Harold Brookfield and Yvonne Byron, eds., Tokyo: United Nations University Press, pp. 34-46.

Morgan, Joseph, 1993. "Natural and Human Hazards," in South-East Asia's Environmental Future: The Search for Sustainability, Harold Brookfield and Yvonne Byron, eds., Tokyo: United Nations University, pp. 286-301.

THAILAND

Dutt, Ashok K., 1985. "Thailand: A Geographical Analysis," in Southeast Asia: Realm of Contrasts, Ashok K. Dutt, ed. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, pp. 202-218.

CENTRAL

Takaya, Yoshikazu, 1975. "An Ecological Interpretation of Thai History," Journal of Southeast Asia Studies 6(2):190-195.

Tambiah, S.J., 1969. "Animals are Good to Think and Good to Prohibit," Ethnology 8:423-459.

NORTHEAST

Pendelton, Robert L., 1943. "Land Use in Northeastern Thailand," Geographical Review 33:15-41.

Grandstaff, Terry B., 1988. "Environment and Economic Diversity in Northeast Thailand," in Sustainable Rural Development in Asia, Terd Charoenwatana and A. Terry Rambo, eds., Khon Kaen: Khon Kaen University, pp. 11-22.

NORTH

Smitinand, Tem, Sanga Sabhasri, and Peter Kunstadter, 1978. "The Environment of Northern Thailand," in Farmers in the Forest: Economic Development and Marginal Agriculture in Northern Thailand, Peter Kunstadter, E.C. Chapman, and Sanga Sabhasri, eds., Honolulu: East-West Center and University of Hawaii Press, pp. 24-40.

Kunstadter, Peter, 1988. "Hill People of Northern Thailand," in People of the Tropical Rain Forest, Julie Sloan Denslow and Christine Padoch, eds. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp.93-110.

Jorgensen, Anders Baltzer, 1989. "A Natural View: Pwo Karen Notions of Plants, Landscapes, and People," Folk 31:21-51.

Dearden, Philip, 1993. "Development and Environmental Change: Insights From Northern Thailand," in Counting the Costs: Environmental Growth and Economic Change, Jonathan Rigg, ed. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (in press).

SOUTH

Ewusie, J. Yanney, 1980. "Specialized Ecosystems within the Tropical Forests and Along the Sea Coast," in his Elements of Tropical Ecology, Exeter, NH: Heinemann, pp. 155-171.

Sponsel, Leslie E., and Poranee Natadecha-Sponsel, 1991. "A Comparison of the Cultural Ecology of Adjacent Muslim and Buddhist Villages in Southern Thailand," Journal of the NAtional Research Council of Thailand 23(2):31-42.

Quarto, Alfredo, 1992. "Fishers Among the Mangroves," Cultural Survival Quarterly 16(4):12-15.

Ruyabhorn, Pravit, and Dhira Phantumvanit, 1988. "Coastal and Marine Resources of Thailand--- Emerging Issues Facing an Industrializing Country," Ambio 17(3):229-232.

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Phantumvanit, Dhira, and Khunying Suthawan Sathirathai, 1988. "Thailand: Degradation and Development in a Resource-Rich Land," Environment 30(1):11-32.

Kunstadter, Peter, 1989. "The End of the Frontier: Culture and Environmental Interactions in Thailand," in Culture and Environment in Thailand, Bangkok: Siam Society, pp. 543-553.

Sponsel, Leslie E., 1992. "Environmental Management at the Community and National Levels," in Asia's New Initiatives in the 1990s: The Peace Process, Economic Cooperation, Management of the Environment, Tokyo: United Nations University Japan-ASEAN Forum III, pp. 234-257.

McNeely, Jeffrey A., and Robert J. Dobias, 1991. "Economic Incentives for Conserving Biodiversity in Thailand," Ambio 20(2):86-90.

Godoy, Ricardo, and Ruben Lubowski, 1992. "Guidelines for the Economic Valuation of Nontimber Tropical-Forest Products,"
Current Anthropology 33(4):423-433.

Lohmann, Larry, 1991. "Who Defends Biological Diversity? Conservation Strategies and the Case of Thailand," The Ecologist 21(1):5-13.

Sponsel, Leslie E., and Poranee Natadecha-Sponsel, 1988. "Buddhism, Ecology and Forests in Thailand," in Changing Tropical Forests: Historical Perspectives on Today's Challenges in Asia, Australasia and Oceania, Canberra: Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, pp. 305-326.

_____, 1993. "The Potential Contribution of Buddhism in Developing an Environmental Ethic for the Conservation of Biodiversity," in Ethics, Religion and Biodiversity: Relations between conservation and cultural values. Cambridge: White Horse Press, pp. 75-97.

* This is a selection of readings for teaching human ecology while on a Fulbright Fellowship in 1994-1995 in the Biology Section, School of Science and Technology, Prince of Songkhla University, in Pattani, Thailand.