Hunter-Gatherers and Their Neighbors from Prehistory to the Present [and Comments and Replies]
In: Current anthropology, Band 30, Heft 1, S. 43-66
ISSN: 1537-5382
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In: Current anthropology, Band 30, Heft 1, S. 43-66
ISSN: 1537-5382
Today human ecology has split into many different sub-disciplines such as historical ecology, political ecology or the New Ecological Anthropology. The latter in particular has criticised the predominance of the Western view on different ecosystems, arguing that culture-specific world views and human-environment interactions have been largely neglected. However, these different perspectives only tackle specific facets of a local and global hyper-complex reality. In bringing together a variety of views and theoretical approaches , these especially commissioned essays prove that an interdisciplinary collaboration and understanding of the extreme complexity of the human-environment interface(s) is possible