Environment, Subsistence and System: The Ecology of Small-Scale Social Formations

Preface Acknowledgements 1. Environmental determinism and casual correlation 2. Possibilism and limiting factors 3. Cultural ecology and the explanatory imperative 4. Human ecology and the biological model 5. The flow of energy and materials 6. Ecosystems and subsistence patterns I 7. Ecosystems and subsistence patterns II 8. Systems and their regulation 9. Information and the manipulation of the environment 10. Adaptation: a summary and reconsideration 11. The reproduction and evolution of social and ecological systems 12. Ecology in anthropological method and theory Notes Bibliography Name Index Subject Index.