RECOMMENDED SOURCES FOR CLASS PRESENTATIONS [ANTH 457, Autumn 2007]
The following sources are recommended, although not all are suitable for the main focus of your presentation (see handout of the assignment). If you have alternate sources for that you wish to use, I will consider them, but you will need to provide me with a photocopy (or a web URL). --Eric
Anthropogenic Environments
Anderson, M. Kat (1999) The fire, pruning, and coppice management of temperate ecosystems for basketry material by California Indian tribes. Human Ecology 27(1):79-113.
Anderson, M. Kat (1993) Native Californians as ancient and contemporary cultivators. In Before the wilderness: environmental management by native Californians, ed. Thomas C. Blackburn and Kat Anderson, pp. 151-174. Menlo Park, CA: Ballena Press.
Anderson, M. Kat (2005) Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources. Berkeley: U California Press.
Balée, William (1992) People of the fallow: a historical ecology of foraging in lowland South America. In Conservation in Neotropical forests: Working from traditional resource use, ed. Kent H. Redford and Christine Padoch, pp. 35-?. Irvington, NY: Columbia U. Press.
Balée, William (1993) Indigenous transformation of Amazonian forests: an example from Maranhão, Brazil. L’Homme 33:231-254.
Bowman, D.M.J.S., Angie Walsh, and L.D. Prior (2004) Landscape analysis of Aboriginal fire management in Central Arnhem Land, north Australia. Journal of Biogeography 31(2):207-223.
Burney, David A. (1997) Tropical islands as paleoecological laboratories: gauging the consequences of human arrival. Human Ecology 25(3):437‑457.
Diamond, Jared L. (2007) Easter Island revisited. Science 317(5845): 1692-1694. [cf. Hunt 2007]
Donlan, Josh and et al. (2005) Re-wilding North America. Nature 436:913-914.
Fisher, Christopher T, et al. (2003) A reexamination of human-induced environmental change within the Lake Pátzcuaro Basin, Michoacán, Mexico. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 100(8):4957-4962.
Hammett, Julia E. (2000) Ethnohistory of aboriginal landscapes in the southeastern United States. In Biodiversity and native America, ed. Paul E. Minnis and Wayne J. Elisens, pp. 248-299. Norman, OK: U of Oklahoma Press.
Heckenberger, M.J., et al. (2003) Amazonia 1492: Pristine forest or cultural parkland? Science 301 (5640):1710-1713.
Hunt, Terry L. (2006) Rethinking the fall of Easter Island. American Scientist 94(5):412-419. [cf. Diamond 2007]
Hunt, Terry L. (2007) Rethinking Easter Island’s ecological catastrophe. J. of Archaeological Science 34:485-502.
Jones, Clive G., John H. Lawton, and Moshe Shachak (1994) Organisms as ecosystem engineers. Oikos 69:373-386.
Kirch, Patrick V. (1997) Microcosmic histories: island perspectives on "global" change. American Anthropologist 99:30‑42.
Kohler, Tim (1992) Prehistoric human impact on the environment in the upland North‑American Southwest. Population and Environment 13:255‑268.
Laris, Paul (2002) Burning the seasonal mosaic: Preventative burning strategies in the wooded savanna of Southern Mali. Human Ecology 30(2):155-186.
Natcher, David C. (2004) Implications of fire policy on native land use in the Yukon Flats, Alaska. Human Ecology 32(4):421-441.
Parr, Catherine L. and Alan N. Andersen (2006) Patch mosaic burning for biodiversity conservation: A critique of the pyrodiversity paradigm. Conservation Biology 20(6):1610-1619.
Peres, Carlos A. (2000) Effects of subsistence hunting on vertebrate community structure in Amazonian forests. Conservation Biology 14:240-253.
Peacock, Sandra L. and Nancy J. Turner (2000) "Just like a garden": traditional resource management and biodiversity conservation in the interior plateau of British Columbia. In Biodiversity and native America, ed. Paul E. Minnis and Wayne J. Elisens, pp. 133‑179. Norman, OK: U of Oklahoma Press.
Pyne, Stephen J. (1998) Forged in fire: history, land, and anthropogenic fire. In Advances in historical ecology, ed. William Balée, pp. 64‑103. NY: Columbia U. Press.
Russell‑Smith, Jeremy, et al. (1997) Aboriginal resource utilization and fire management practice in western Arnhem Land, monsoonal northern Australia: notes for prehistory, lessons for the future. Human Ecology 25(2):159‑195.
Stewart, Omer C. (2002) Forgotten fires: Native Americans and the transient wilderness. Norman, OK: U. of Oklahoma Press.
Vale, Thomas R. (1998) The myth of the humanized landscape: an example from Yosemite National Park. Natural Areas Journal 18:231‑236.
Vale, Thomas R., ed. (2002) Fire, native peoples, and the natural landscape. Washington, D.C.: Island Press. [selected chapters]
Population Ecology
Bentley, Gillian R., Grazyna Jasienska, and Tony Goldberg (1993) Is the fertility of agriculturalists higher than that of nonagriculturalists? Current Anthropology 34:778‑785.
Blurton Jones, Nicholas, Kristen Hawkes, and Patricia Draper (1994) Differences between Hadza and !Kung children's work: Affluence or practical reason? In Key issues in hunter‑gatherer research, ed. Ernest S. Burch, Jr. and Linda J. Ellanna, pp. 189‑215. Oxford/Providence: Berg.
Boone, James L. (2002) Subsistence strategies and early human population history: an evolutionary ecological perspective. World Archaeology 34(1):6-25.
Gibson, M.A. and R. Mace (2002) Labor-saving technology and fertility increase in rural Africa. Current Anthropology 43(4):631-636.
Hassan, Fekri A. (1994) Population ecology and civilization in ancient Egypt. In Historical ecology: cultural knowledge and changing landscapes, ed. Carole L. Crumley, pp. 155-182. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research Press. [pop]
Hawkes, Kristen, James F. O'Connell, and Nicholas G. Blurton Jones (1997) Hadza women's time allocation, offspring provisioning, and the evolution of long postmenopausal life spans. Current Anthropology 38:551‑577.
Kramer, Karen L. and James L. Boone (2002) Why intensive agriculturalists have higher fertility: A household energy budget approach. Current Anthropology 43(3):511-518.
Low, Bobbi S. and Alice Clarke (1992) Resource control, fertility and migration. In Population-environment dynamics, ed. Gayl D. Ness, Drake William D., and Brechin Steven R., pp. 195-224. Ann Arbor: U. of Michigan Press. [pop; eur]
Netting, Robert McC. (1990) Population, permanent agriculture, and polities: Unpacking the evolutionary portmanteau. In The evolution of political systems, ed. Steadman Upham, pp. 21-61. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Pennington, Rene L. (1996) Causes of early human population growth. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 99:259-272.
Sellen, Daniel W. and Ruth Mace (1997) Fertility and mode of subsistence: a phylogenetic analysis. Current Anthropology 38:878-889.
Stiner, Mary C., et al. (1999) Paleolithic population growth pulses evidenced by small animal exploitation. Science 283:190-194.
Stiner, Mary C., Natalie D. Munro, and Todd A. Surovell (2000) The tortoise and the hare: small-game use, the broad-spectrum revolution, and Paleolithic demography. Current Anthropology 41(1):39-73.
Vasey, Daniel (1996) Population regulation, ecology, and political economy in preindustrial Iceland. American Ethnologist 23:366‑392.
Wood, James W. (1998) A theory of preindustrial population dynamics: demography, economy, and well-being in Malthusian systems. Current Anthropology 39:99-135.
Reproductive Strategies
Bird, Douglas W. and Rebecca L. Bliege Bird (2002) Children on the reef: slow learning or strategic foraging? Human Nature 13(2):269-298.
Blurton Jones, Nicholas and Frank W. Marlowe (2002) Selection for delayed maturity: does it take 20 years to learn to hunt and gather? Human Nature 13(2):199-238.
Borgerhoff Mulder, Monique (2000) Optimizing offspring: the quantity-quality tradeoff in agropastoral Kipsigis. Evolution and Human Behavior 21:391-410.
Draper, Patricia and Raymond Hames (2000) Birth order, sibling investment, and fertility among Ju/'hoansi (!Kung). Human Nature 11(2):117-156.
Gibson, Mhairi A. and Ruth Mace (2005) Helpful grandmothers in rural Ethiopia: A study of the effect of kin on child survival and growth. Evolution and Human Behavior 26:469-482.
Hames, Raymond and Patricia Draper (2004) Women's work, child care, and helpers-at-the-nest in a hunter-gatherer society. Human Nature 15(4):319-341.
Hawkes, Kristen, James F. O'Connell, and Nicholas G. Blurton Jones (2001) Hunting and nuclear families: some lessons from the Hadza about men's work. Current Anthropology 42(5):681-709.
Hewlett, Barry, et al. (2000) Parental investment strategies among Aka foragers, Ngandu farmers, and Euro-American urban industrialists. In Adaptation and human behavior: An anthropological perspective, ed. Lee Cronk, Napoleon Chagnon, and William Irons, pp. 155-178. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter.
Hill, Kim and A. Magdalena Hurtado (1995) Ache life history: The ecology and demography of a foraging people (chs 8-10 & 12). Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter.
Holden, Clare Janaki, Rebecca Sear, and Ruth Mace (2003) Matriliny as daughter-biased investment. Evolution and Human Behavior 24(2):99-112.
Ivey, Paula (2000) Forest hunter-gatherers: who cares for Efe infants? Current Anthropology 41:856-866.
Kramer, Karen and Garnett P. McMillan (1998) How Maya women respond to changing technology: the effect of helping behavior on initiation of reproduction. Human Nature 9:205-223.
Kramer, Karen L. (2005) Children's help and the pace of reproduction: cooperative breeding in humans. Evolutionary Anthropology 14:224-237.
Leonetti, Donna L., et al. (2004) Do women really need marital partners for support of their reproductive success? The case of the matrilineal Khasi of N.E. India. Research in Economic Anthropology 23:151-174.
Mace, Ruth (1996) Biased parental investment and reproductive success among Gabbra pastoralists. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 38:75-81.
Marlowe, Frank (2003) A critical period for provisioning by Hadza men: implications for pair bonding. Evolution and Human Behavior 24:217-229.
Marlowe, Frank W. (2001) Male contribution to diet and female reproductive success among foragers. Current Anthropology 42(5):755-760.
Meehan, Courtney L. (2005) The effects of residential locality on parental and alloparental investment among the Aka foragers of the Central African Republic. Human Nature 16(1):58-80.
Quinlan, Robert J., Marsha B. Quinlan, and Mark V. Flinn (2005) Local resource enhancement and sex-biased breastfeeding in a Caribbean community. Current Anthropology 46(3):471-480.
Rende Taylor, Lisa (2005) Dangerous trade-offs: The behavioral ecology of child labor and prostitution in rural Northern Thailand. Current Anthropology 46(3):411-431.
Sellen, Daniel W. and Daniel J. Hruschka (2004) Extracted-food resource-defense polygyny in native western North American societies at contact. Current Anthropology 45(5):707-714.
Sellen, Daniel W., Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, and Daniela Sieff (2000) Fertility, offspring quality, and wealth in Datoga pastoralists: testing evolutionary models of intersexual selection. In Adaptation and human behavior: An anthropological perspective, ed. Lee Cronk, Napoleon Chagnon, and William Irons, pp. 91-114. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter.
Smith, Eric Alden (2005) Why do good hunters have higher reproductive success? Human Nature 15(4):342-363.
Strassman, Beverly I. and Alice L. Clarke (1998) Ecological constraints on marriage in rural Ireland. Evolution and Human Behavior 19:35-55.
Voland, Eckart and Robin I. M. Dunbar (1995) Resource competition and reproduction: the relationship between economic and parental strategies in the Krummhorn populations (1720-1874). Human Nature 6:33-50.
Waynforth, David, A. Magdalena Hurtado, and Kim Hill (1998) Environmentally contingent reproductive strategies in Mayan and Ache males. Evolution and Human Behavior 19:369-385.
Wilson, Margo and Martin Daly (1997) Life expectancy, economic inequality, homicide, and reproductive timing in Chicago neighbourhoods. BMJ (British Medical Journal) 314:1271‑1274.
Wood, Brian and Kim Hill (2000) A test of the "showing-off" hypothesis with Ache hunters. Current Anthropology 41(1):124-125.
Wood, Brian M. (2006) Prestige or provisioning? A test of foraging goals among the Hadza. Current Anthropology 47(2):383-387.
Foraging Systems
[There are many sources on hunter-gatherer ecology; below is just a small sample. If this is your topic, the best plan is to get advice from Eric on choosing a particular hunter-gatherer society to research, and suggestions on readings for that particular society.]
Altman, Jon C. (1984) Hunter-gatherer subsistence production in Arnhem Land: the original affluence hypothesis re-examined. Mankind 14:179-90.
Hawkes, Kristen, James F. O'Connell, and Nicholas G. Blurton Jones (1997) Hadza women's time allocation, offspring provisioning, and the evolution of long postmenopausal life spans. Current Anthropology 38:551-577.
Hurtado, Ana Magdalena and Kim R. Hill (1990) Seasonality in a foraging society: variation in diet, work effort, fertility, and sexual division of labor among the Hiwi of Venezuela. Journal of Anthropological Research 46:293‑346.
Thomas, Frank R. (2007) The behavioral ecology of shellfish gathering in Western Kiribati, Micronesia 1: Prey choice. Human Ecology 35(2):179-194.
Wiessner, Polly (2002) Hunting, healing, and hxaro exchange: a long term perspective on !Kung (Ju/'hoansi) large-game hunting. Evolution and Human Behavior 23(6):407-436.
Agricultural Origins
Barlow, K. Renee (2002) Predicting maize agriculture among the Fremont: an economic comparison of farming and foraging in the American Southwest. American Antiquity 67(1):65-88.
Diamond, Jared (2002) Evolution, consequences and future of plant and animal domestication. Nature *(6898):700-707.
Gremillion, Kristen J. (2004) Seed processing and the origins of food production in eastern North America. American Antiquity 69(2):215-233.
Harris, David R. (1989) An evolutionary continuum of people-plant interaction. In Foraging and Farming: The Evolution of Plant Exploitation, ed. D.R. Harris and G.C. Hillman, pp. 11-25. London: Unwin Hyman.
Hayden, Brian (1992) Models of domestication. In Transitions to agriculture in prehistory, ed. Anne Birgitte Gebauer and T. Douglas Price, pp. 11-19. Madison, WI: Prehistory Press.
Kennett, Douglas J. and Bruce Winterhalder, eds. (2006) Behavioral ecology and the transition to agriculture. Berkeley, CA: U. of California Press. [selected chapters]
Richerson, Peter J., Robert Boyd, and Robert L. Bettinger (2001) Was agriculture impossible during the Pleistocene but mandatory during the Holocene? A climate change hypothesis. American Antiquity 66(3):387-411.
Smith, Bruce D. (2001) The transition to food production. In Archaeology at the millenium: a sourcebook, ed. G. Feinman and T.D. Price, pp. 199-229. NY: Kluwer/Plenum.
Zeder, Melinda A. (2006) Central questions in the domestication of plants and animals. Evolutionary Anthropology 15(3):105-117.
Swidden & Tropical Forests
Beckerman, Stephen (1983) Does the swidden ape the jungle? Human Ecology 11(2): 1‑12.
Beckerman, Stephen (1987) Swidden in Amazonia and the Amazon Rim. In Comparative Farming Systems, ed. B. L. Turner II and Stephen B. Brush, pp. 55‑94. New York: Guilford Press.
Clay, Daniel and Laurence A. Lewis (1990) Land use, soil loss, and sustainable agriculture in Rwanda. Human Ecology 18: 147‑162.
Denevan, William M. and Christine Padoch, eds. (1987) Swidden-fallow agroforestry in the Peruvian Amazon. Advances in Economic Botany 5:1-107.
Denevan, W. M. and Treacy, J. M. (1987) Young managed fallows at Brillo Nuevo. Advances in Economic Botany 5:8-46.
Dewar, Robert E. (2003) Rainfall variability and subsistence systems in southeast Asia and the western Pacific. Current Anthropology 44(3):369-388.
Dove, Michael (1983) Theories of swidden agriculture, and the political economy of ignorance. Agroforestry Systems 1: 85-99.
Johnson, Allen W. (1974) Ethnoecology and planting practices in a swidden agricultural system. American Ethnologist 1: 87‑101.
Moran, Emilio F. (1991) Human adaptive strategies in Amazonian blackwater ecosystems. American Anthropologist 93: 361‑382
Sponsel, Leslie E. (1992) The environmental history of Amazonia: natural and human disturbances, and the ecological transition. In Changing tropical forests: historical perspectives on today's challenges in Central and South America, ed. Harold K. Steen and Richard P. Tucker, pp. 233‑251. Durham: Forest History Society.
Wilkie, D.S., et al. (1998) Modeling the sustainability of subsistence farming and hunting in the Ituri forest of Zaire. Conservation Biology 12(1):137‑147.
Agricultural Intensification
Bardhan, Pranab (2000) Irrigation and cooperation: an empirical analysis of 48 irrigation communities in South India. Economic Development and Cultural Change 48:847-865.
Brookfield, H. and C. Padoch (1994) Appreciating agrodiversity: a look at the dynamism and diversity of indigenous farming practices. Environment 36(5):*.
Humphries, Sally (1993) The intensification of traditional agriculture among Yucatec Maya farmers: Facing up to the dilemma of livelihood sustainability. Human Ecology 21:87‑102.
Hunt, Robert C. (2000) Labor productivity and agricultural development: Boserup revisited. Human Ecology 28(2):251-277.
Ladefoged, Thegn N. and Michael W. Graves (2000) Evolutionary theory and the historical development of dry-land agriculture in North Kohala, Hawai'i. American Antiquity 65(3):423-448.
Lee, Charlotte, Shripad Tuljapurkar, and Peter Vitousek (2006) Risky business: Temporal and spatial variation in preindustrial dryland agriculture. Human Ecology 34(6):739-763.
Lees, Susan H. (1994) Irrigation and society. Journal of Archaeological Research 2:361-378.
Netting, Robert M. (1993) Smallholders, householders: farm families and the ecology of intensive, sustainable agriculture. Stanford: Stanford U. Press.
Padoch, Christine, Emily Harwell and Adi Susanto (1998) Swidden, sawah, and in-between: Agricultural transformation in Borneo. Human Ecology 26(1):3-20.
Stone, Glen Davis (1996) Settlement ecology: the social and spatial organization of Kofyar agriculture. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press.
Toledo, Victor M. (1991) Patzcuaro's lesson: nature, production, and culture in an indigenous region of Mexico. In Biodiversity: culture, conservation, and ecodevelopment, ed. M.L. Oldfield and J.B. Alcorn, pp. 147‑171. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
Vasey, Daniel (1992) An ecological history of agriculture: 10.000 B.C. - A.D. 10,000. Ames, IA: Iowa State U Press.
Pastoralism
Adriansen, H.K. and T.T. Nielsen (2002) Going where the grass is greener: On the study of pastoral mobility in Ferlo, Senegal. Human Ecology 30(2):215-226.
Baker, Laura and M. Hoffman (2006) Managing variability: Herding strategies in communal rangelands of semiarid Namaqualand, South Africa. Human Ecology 34(6):765-784.
Beach, Hugh (2004) Political ecology in Swedish Saamiland. In Cultivating arctic landscapes: knowing and managing animals in the circumpolar north, ed. David G. Anderson and Mark Nuttall, pp. 110-123. NY and Oxford: Berghahn.
Bloom, Gabrielle and Paul W. Sherman (2005) Dairying barriers affect the distribution of lactose malabsorption. Evolution and Human Behavior 26(3):301-312.
Coppolillo, Peter B. (2000) The landscape ecology of pastoral herding: spatial analysis of land use and livestock production in East Africa. Human Ecology 28(4):527-560.
Cougenhour, M.B., J.E. Ellis, D.M. Swift, D.L. Coopock, K. Galvin, J.T. McCabe, and T.C. Hart (1985) Energy extraction and use in a nomadic pastoral ecosystem. Science 230: 619‑25.
Dyson-Hudson, Rada and Neville Dyson-Hudson (1980) Nomadic pastoralism. Annual Review of Anthropology 9:15-61.
Fratkin, Elliot (1997) Pastoralism: governance and development issues. Annual Review of Anthropology 26:235-261.
Galaty, John G. and Pierre Bonte, eds. (1991) Herders, warriors, and traders: Pastoralism in Africa. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
Galaty, John G. and Douglas L. Johnson, eds. (1990) The World of Pastoralism: Herding Systems in Comparative Perspective. New York: Guilford.
Lesorogol, Carolyn K. (2003) Transforming institutions among pastoralists: inequality and land privatization. American Anthropologist 105(3):531-542.
Little, Peter D. (1996) Pastoralism, biodiversity, and the shaping of savanna landscapes in east Africa. Africa 66(1):37‑51.
Mace, Ruth (1993) Nomadic pastoralists adopt subsistence strategies that maximise long-term household survival. Behavioral Ecology 33:329-334.
Mace, Ruth (1993) Pastoralist strategies for survival in unpredictable environments: a model of herd composition that maximises household viability. Agricultural Systems 31:185-204.
MBow, C., T.T. Nielsen, and K. Rasmussen (2000) Savanna fires in east-central Senegal: distribution patterns, resource management and perceptions. Human Ecology 28(4):561-583.
McCabe, J. Terrence (1990) Turkana pastoralism: a case against the tragedy of the commons. Human Ecology 18: 81‑103.
McPeak, John (2005) Individual and collective rationality in pastoral production: Evidence from Northern Kenya. Human Ecology 33(2):171-197.
Ruttan, Lore M. and Monique Borgerhoff Mulder (1999) Are East African pastoralists truly conservationists? Current Anthropology 40:621-652.
Sieff, Daniela F. (1997) Herding strategies of the Datoga pastoralists of Tanzania: is household labor a limiting factor. Human Ecology 25(4):519-544.
Group Dynamics & Settlement Patterns
Adriansen, H.K. and T.T. Nielsen (2002) Going where the grass is greener: On the study of pastoral mobility in Ferlo, Senegal. Human Ecology 30(2):215-226.
Alvard, Michael S. (2003) Kinship, lineage, and an evolutionary perspective on the structure of cooperative big game hunting groups in Indonesia. Human Nature 14(2):129-163.
Clarke, Alice L. (1993) Women, resources, and dispersal in nineteenth-century Sweden. Human Nature 4:109-135.
Fitzhugh, Ben and J. Habu, ed. (2002) Beyond foraging and collecting: Evolutionary change in hunter-gatherer settlement systems. NY: Kluwer/Plenum Press.
Hames, Raymond B. (1983) The settlement pattern of a Yanomamo population bloc: a behavioral ecological interpretation. In Adaptive Responses of Native Amazonians, ed. R. Hames and W.T. Vickers, pp. 393‑427. New York: Academic Press.
Kennett, Douglas J., Atholl Anderson, and Bruce Winterhalder (2006) The ideal free distribution, food production, and the colonization of Oceania. In Behavioral ecology and the transition to agriculture, ed. Douglas J. Kennett and Bruce Winterhalder, pp. 265-288. Berkeley, CA: U. of California Press.
Small, Christopher and Joel E. Cohen (2004) Continental physiography, climate, and the global distribution of human population. Current Anthropology 45(2):269-276.
Sosis, Richard (2000) Religion and intragroup cooperation: preliminary results of a comparative anaysis of utopian communities. Cross-Cultural Research 34(1):70-87.
Sosis, Richard (2002) Patch choice decisions among Ifaluk foragers. American Anthropologist 104:583-598.
Towner, Mary C. (2002) Linking dispersal and marriage in humans: life history data from Oakham, Massachusetts. Evolution and Human Behavior 23(5):337-357.
Whallon, Robert (2006) Social networks and information: Non-"utilitarian" mobility among hunter-gatherers. J. of Anthropological Archaeology 25(2):259-270.
Land (and Marine) Tenure
Acheson, James A. (1987) The Lobster Fiefs Revisited: Economic and Ecological Effects of Territoriality in the Maine Lobster Industry. In The Question of the Commons: The Culture and Ecology of Communal Resources, ed. Bonnie J. McCay and James M. Acheson, pp 37-65. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press.
Acheson, James and Roy J. Gardner (2004) Strategies, conflict, and the emergence of territoriality: the case of the Maine lobster industry. American Anthropologist 106(2):296-307.
Andrews, Elizabeth F. (1994) Territoriality and land use among the Akulmiut of Western Alaska. In Key issues in hunter‑gatherer research, ed. Ernest S. Burch, Jr. and Linda J. Ellanna, pp. 65‑93. Oxford/Providence: Berg.
Ashenafi, Zelealem and N. Leader-Williams (2005) Indigenous common property resource management in the central highlands of Ethiopia. Human Ecology 33(4):539-563.
Aswani, Shankar (1999) Common property models of sea tenure: a case study from the Roviana and Vonavona Lagoons, New Georgia, Solomon Islands. Human Ecology 27(3):417‑453.
Bennett, J. and H. Barrett (2007) Rangeland as a common property resource: Contrasting insights from communal areas of central Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. Human Ecology 35(1):97-112.
Casimir, Michael J. (1992) The determinants of rights to pasture: territorial organisation and ecological constraints. In Mobility and Territoriality, ed. M.J. Casimir and A. Rao, pp. 153‑203. Oxford: Berg.
Ensminger, Jean and Andrew Rutten (1991) The political economy of changing property rights: dismantling a pastoral commons. American Ethnologist 18:683-699.
Fernandez-Gimenez, M.E. (2002) Spatial and social boundaries and the paradox of pastoral land tenure: A case study from postsocialist Mongolia. Human Ecology 30(1):49-78.
Hitchcock, Robert K. (1995) Indigenous peoples, resource management, and traditional tenure systems in African dryland environments. In Social aspects of sustainable dryland management, ed. Daniel Stiles, pp. 153‑175. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
Kohler, Timothy A. (1992) Field houses, villages, and the tragedy of the commons in the early Northern Anasazi Southwest. American Antiquity 57(4):617‑635.
McKean, Margaret A. (1992) Success on the commons: a comparative examination of institutions for common property resources management. J. of Theoretical Politics 4:247‑281.
Orlove, Benjamin S. (1978) The tragedy of the commons revisited: Land use and environmental quality in high-altitude Andean grasslands. In Proceedings of the International Hill Symposium. Luchok, J., J.D. Cawthon, and M.J. Breslin, eds. Pp. 208-214. Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University Books.
Ostrom, Elinor, et al. (1999) Revisiting the commons: local lessons, global challenges. Science 284:278-282.
Peluso, Nancy Lee (1996) Fruit trees and family trees in an anthropogenic forest: ethics of access, property zones, and environmental change in Indonesia. Comparative Studies in Society and History *:510‑548.
Ruttan, Lore M. (1998) Closing the commons: cooperation for gain or restraint? Human Ecology 26(1):43‑66.
Ruttan, Lore M. (2006) Sociocultural heterogeneity and the commons. Current Anthropology 47(5):843-853.
Stern, P.C., et al. (2002) Knowledge and questions after fifteen years of research. In The drama of the commons, ed. E. Ostrom, pp. 445-489. Washington, D.C.: National Research Council.
Thomas, Frank R. (2001) Remodeling marine tenure on the atolls: A case study from Western Kiribati, Micronesia. Human Ecology 29(4):399-423.
Reciprocity & Subsistence Risk
Agrawal, Arun (1993) Mobility and cooperation among nomadic shepherds: the case of the Raikas. Human Ecology 21:261-279.
Alvard, Michael S. and David Nolin (2002) Rousseau's whale hunt? Coordination among big-game hunters. Current Anthropology 43(4):533-559.
Gurven, Michael, et al. (2000) "It's a wonderful life": signaling generosity among the Ache of Paraguay. Evolution and Human Behavior 21(4):263-282.
Gurven, Michael, et al. (2001) Reservation food sharing among the Ache of Paraguay. Human Nature 12(4):273-297.
Gurven, Michael (2004) Reciprocal altruism and food sharing decisions among Hiwi and Ache hunter-gatherers. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 56:366-380.
Hadley, Craig (2004) The costs and benefits of kin: Kin networks and children's health among the Pimbwe of Tanzania. Human Nature 15(4):377-395.
Hames, Raymond B. (1990) Sharing among the Yanomamö, Part I: The effects of risk. In Risk and Uncertainty in Tribal and Peasant Economies, ed. E. Cashdan, pp. 89-105. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
Hames, Raymond B. (2000) Reciprocal altruism in Yanomamö food exchange. In Adaptation and human behavior: An anthropological perspective, ed. Lee Cronk, Napoleon Chagnon, and William Irons, pp. 3397-416. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter.
Kaplan, Hillard, Kim Hill, and A. Magdelena Hurtado (1990) Fitness, foraging and food sharing among the Ache. In Risk and Uncertainty in Tribal and Peasant Economies, ed. E. Cashdan, pp. 107-143. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
Kohler, Timothy A. and C. van West (1996) The calculus of self-interest in the development of cooperation: sociopolitical development and risk among the northern Anasazi. In Evolving complexity and environment: trade in the prehistoric southwest, ed. J.A. Tainter and B. Bagley-Tainter, pp. 169-196. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
Kuznar, Lawrence A. (2001) Risk sensitivity and value among Andean pastoralists: measures, models, and empirical tests. Current Anthropology 42(3):432-440.
Lansing, J. Stephen (2000) Anti-chaos, common property, and the emergence of cooperation. In Dynamics in human and primate societies, ed. Timothy A. Kohler and George J. Gumerman, pp. 207-223. Oxford: Oxford U. Press.
Marlowe, Frank W. (2004) What explains Hadza food sharing? Research in Economic Anthropology 23:69-88.
Palmer, Craig T. (1991) Kin-selection, reciprocal altruism, and information sharing among Maine lobstermen. Ethology and Sociobiology 12:221-235.
Patton, John Q. (2005) Meat sharing for coalitional support. Evolution and Human Behavior 26(2):137-157.
Sugiyama, Lawrence S. (2004) Patterns of Shiwiar health insults indicate that provisioning during health crises reduces juvenile mortality. Research in Economic Anthropology 23:379-402.
Sugiyama, Lawrence and Michelle Scalise Sugiyama (2003) Social roles, prestige, and health risk: social niche specialization as a risk-buffering strategy. Human Nature 14(2):165-190.
Tucker, Bram (2004) Giving, scrounging, hiding, and selling: minimal food sharing among Mikea of Madagascar. Research in Economic Anthropology 23:45-68.
Ecological Competition & Warfare
a. Highland New Guinea
Sillitoe, Paul (1977) Land shortage and war in New Guinea. Ethnology 16: 71‑81.
Ember, Melvin (1982) Statistical evidence for an ecological explanation of warfare. American Anthropologist 84: 645‑49.
Ember, Melvin (1986) Warfare, culture, and environment. American Anthropologist 88(2): 463‑4.
Shankman, Paul (1991) Culture contact, cultural ecology, and Dani warfare. Man 26: 299-321.
Soltis, Joseph, Robert Boyd, and Peter J. Richerson (1995) Can group-functional behaviors evolve by cultural group selection? An empirical test. Current Anthropology 36:473-483.
b. Amazonia
Chagnon, Napoleon A. (1988) Life histories, blood revenge, and warfare in a tribal population. Science 239:985‑92.
Chagnon, Napoleon A. (1989) Response to Ferguson. American Ethnologist 16:565-9.
Chagnon, Napolean A. and Raymond Hames (1979) Protein deficiency and tribal warfare in Amazonia: new data. Science 203: 910‑13.
Chagnon, Napoleon A. and Raymond B. Hames (1980) Amazon warfare. Science 207:590-92.
Ferguson, R. Brian (1989) Do Yanomamo killers have more kids? American Ethnologist 16:564-5.
Ferguson, R. Brian (1989) Ecological consequences of Amazonian warfare. Ethnology 28:249-264.
Harris, Marvin (1984) Animal capture and Yanamamo warfare: retrospect and new evidence. J. of Anthropological Research 40: 183‑201.
c. Other
Durham, William H. (1979) Scarcity and Survival in Central America: Ecological Causes of the Soccer War (pages 1-9. 21-62, & 169-173). Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Flannery, Kent V. and Joyce Marcus (2003) The origin of war: new 14C dates from ancient Mexico. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 100(20):11801-11805.
Fleisher, Michael L. and Garth J. Holloway (2004) The problem with boys: bridewealth accumulation, sibling gender, and the propensity to participate in cattle raiding among the Kuria of Tanzania. Current Anthropology 45(2):284-288.
Kantner, J. (1999) Survival cannibalism or sociopolitical intimidation? Explaining perimortem mutiliation in the American southwest. Human Nature 10(1):1‑50.
Kolb, M.J. and B. Dixon (2002) Landscapes of war: Rules and conventions of conflict in ancient Hawai'i (and elsewhere). American Antiquity 67(3):514-534.
Lekson, Stephen (2002) War in the Southwest, war in the world. American Antiquity 67(4):607-624.
Mesquida, Christian G. and Neil I. Wiener (1996) Human collective aggression: a behavioral ecology perspective. Ethology and Sociobiology 17(4):247‑262.
Miguel, Edward, Sanker Satyanath, and Ernest Sergenti (2004) Economic shocks and civil conflict: an instrumental variables approach. J. of Political Economy 112(4):725-753.
Patton, John Q. (2000) Reciprocal altruism and warfare: a case from the Ecuadorian Amazon. In Adaptation and human behavior: An anthropological perspective, ed. Lee Cronk, Napoleon Chagnon, and William Irons, pp. 417‑436. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter.
Spencer, Charles S. (2003) War and early state formation in Oaxaca, Mexico. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 100(20):11185-11187.
Zhang, D.D., et al. (2007) Climate change and war frequency in eastern China over the last millennium. Human Ecology 35(4):403-414.
Ecology & Stratification
Ames, Kenneth M. (1995) Chiefly power and household production on the Northwest Coast. In Foundations of social inequality, ed. T. Douglas Price and Gary M. Feinman, pp. 155-187. NY: Plenum Press.
Ames, Kenneth M. (2001) Slaves, chiefs and labour on the northern Northwest Coast. World Archaeology 33:1-17.
Arnold, Jeanne E. (1993) Labor and the rise of complex hunter‑gatherers. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 12:75‑119.
Arnold, Jeanne E. (2000) The origins of hierarchy and the nature of hierarchical structures in prehistoric California. In Hierarchies in Action: Cui Bono? ed. Michael W. Diehl, pp. 221-240. Carbondale, IL: Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University.
Aswani, Shankar and Michael W. Graves (1998) The Tongan maritime expansion: a case in the evolutionary ecology of social complexity. Asian Perspectives 37(2):135-164.
Bishop, Charles A. (1987) Coast‑interior exchange: the origins of stratification in northwestern North America. Arctic Anthropology 24: 72‑83.
Boone, James L. (1988) Parental investment, social subordination, and population processes among the 15th and 16th century Portuguese nobility. In Human Reproductive Behavior: A Darwinian Perspective, ed. Laura Betzig, Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, and Paul Turke. pp. 201-219. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press.
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Boone, James L. and Karen L. Kessler (1999) More status or more children? Social status, fertility reduction, and long-term fitness. Evolution and Human Behavior 20(4):257-277.
Donald, Leland and Donald H. Mitchell (1994) Nature and culture on the northwest coast of North America: The case of the Wakashan salmon resources. In Key issues in hunter‑gatherer research, ed. Ernest S. Burch, Jr. and Linda J. Ellanna, pp. 95‑117. Oxford/Providence: Berg.
Halstead, P., O'Shea, J. 1982. A friend in need is a friend indeed: social storage and the origins of social ranking. In Ranking, resource and exchange: aspects of the archaeology of early European society, ed. C. Renfrew, S. Shennan, pp. 92‑99. Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press.
Hayden, Brian (2001) Richman, poorman, beggarman, chief: the dynamics of social inequality. In Archaeology at the millenium: a sourcebook, ed. G. Feinman and T.D. Price, pp. 231-272. NY: Kluwer/Plenum.
Maschner, Herbert G. D. (1991) The emergence of cultural complexity on the Northwest Coast. Antiquity 65:924-934.
Park, Thomas K. (1992) Early trends toward class stratification: Chaos, common property, and flood recession agriculture. American Anthropologist 94:90‑117.
Peoples, James G. (1993) Political evolution in Micronesia. Ethnology 32:1-17.
Roscoe, Paul (2006) Fish, game, and the foundations of complexity in forager society: The evidence from New Guinea. Cross-Cultural Research 40:29-46.
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Niche Theory & Cultural Diversity
Bye, Robert and Edelmira Linares (2000) Relationships between Mexian ethnobotanical diversity and indigenous peoples. In Biodiversity and native America, ed. Paul E. Minnis and Wayne J. Elisens, pp. 44‑73. Norman, OK: U of Oklahoma Press.
Carlson, Thomas (2001) Language, ethnobotanical knowledge, and tropical public health. In Language, knowledge, and the environment: The interdependence of biological and cultural diversity, ed. Luisa Maffi, pp. 489-502. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.
Cashdan, Elizabeth (2001) Ethnic diversity and its environmental determinants: effects of climate, pathogens, and habitat diversity. American Anthropologist 103(4):968-991.
Collard, Ian F. and Robert A. Foley (2002) Latitudinal patterns and environmental determinants of recent human cultural diversity: do humans follow biogeographical rules? Evolutionary Ecology Research 2002(4):371-383.
Gunn, Joel D. (1994) Global climate and regional biocultural diversity. In Historical ecology: cultural knowledge and changing landscapes, ed. Carole L. Crumley, pp. 67-98. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research Press.
Harmon, David and J. Loh (2004) The IBCD: a measure of the world’s biocultural diversity. Policy Matters 13:271-280.
Horowitz, Michael M. (1972) Ethnic boundary maintenance among pastoralists and farmers in the western Sudan (Niger). In Perspectives on Nomadism, ed. W.G. Irons and N. Dyson-Hudson, pp. 105-14. Leiden: Brill.
Lizarralde, Manuel (2001) Biodiversity and loss of indigenous languages and knowledge in South America. In Language, knowledge, and the environment: The interdependence of biological and cultural diversity, ed. Luisa Maffi, pp. 265-281. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.
Mace, Ruth and Mark Pagel (1995) A latitudinal gradient in the density of human languages in North America. PRS, B 261:117-121.
Maffi, Luisa, ed. (2001) Language, knowledge, and the environment: The interdependence of biological and cultural diversity. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.
Moore, Joslin L., et al. (2002) The distribution of biological and cultural diversity in Africa. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B 269(1501):1645-1653.
Nettle, Daniel (1996) Language diversity in West Africa: an ecological approach. J. of Anthropological Archaeology 15:403-438.
Reyes-Garcia, Victoria, et al. (2007) Economic development and local ecological knowledge: A deadlock? Quantitative research from a native Amazonian society. Human Ecology 35(3):371-377.
Sutherland, William J. (2003) Parallel extinction risk and global distribution of languages and species. Nature 423:276-279.
Wilcox, Bruce A. and Kristin N. Duin (1995) Indigenous cultural and biological diversity: overlapping values of Latin American ecoregions. Cultural Survival Quarterly Winter, 49‑53.
Zent, Stanford (2001) Acculturation and ethnobotanical knowledge loss among the Piaroa of Venezuela: demonstration of a quantitative method for the empirical study of traditional ecological knowledge change. In Language, knowledge, and the environment: The interdependence of biological and cultural diversity, ed. Luisa Maffi, pp. 190-211. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.
Disease Ecology
Barrett, Ronald, et al. (1998) Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases: the third epidemilogical transition. Annual Review of Anthropology 27:247-271.
Billing, Jennifer and Paul W. Sherman (1998) Antimicrobial functions of spices: why some like it hot. The Quarterly Review of Biology 73(1):3-49.
Brown, Peter and Elizabeth Whitaker (1994) Health implications of modern agricultural transformations: malaria and pellagra in Italy. Human Organization 53:346-351.
Durham, William H. (1991) Coevolution: Genes, Culture, and Human Diversity. (Selected chapters on malaria/sickle-cell, kuru, or lactose-intolerance.) Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Nichter, Mark (1987) Kayasanur forest disease: an ethnography of a disease of development. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 1:406-423.
Strassman, Beverly I. and Robin I.M. Dunbar (1999) Human evolution and disease: Putting the stone age in perspective. In Evolution in health and disease, ed. Stephen C. Stearns, pp. 91-101. NY: Oxford U. Press.
Wilkinson, Robert L. (1995) Yellow fever: ecology, epidemiology, and role in the collapse of the Classic lowland Maya civilization. Medical Anthropology 16(3):269-294.
Nutrition & Famine
Braa, Dean M. (1997) The Great Potato Famine and the transformation of Irish peasant society. Science and Society 61(2):193‑115.
Danforth, Marie Elaine (1999) Nutrition and politics in prehistory. Annual Review of Anthropology 28:1-25.
Dirks, Robert (1993) Starvation and famine: cross‑cultural codes and some hypothesis tests. Cross‑Cultural Research 27(1‑2):28‑69.
Drèze, J., Sen, A., Hussain, A., eds. 1995. The political economy of hunger: Selected essays. New York: Oxford University Press.
Hassig, Ross (1986) Famine and scarcity in the Valley of Mexico. Research in economic anthropology, Supplement 2:303‑317.
Jackson, Fatimah (1996) The coevolutionary relationship of humans and domesticated plants. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 39:161-176.
Sherman, Paul W. and Jennifer Billing (1999) Darwinian gastronomy: why we use spices. BioScience 49:453-463.
Sherman, Paul W. and Geoffrey A. Hash (2001) Why vegetable recipes are not very spicy. Evolution and Human Behavior 22(3):147‑164.
Watkins, S. and J.A. Menken (1985) Famines in historical perspective. Population and Development Review 11:647‑675.
Indigenous Conservation & Resource Management
a. Foraging Systems
Alvard, Michael S. (1998) Indigenous hunting in the neotropics: conservation or optimal foraging? In Behavioral ecology and conservation biology, ed. Tim Caro, pp. 474‑500. New York: Oxford U Press.
Alvard, Michael S. (2000) The impact of traditional subsistence hunting and trapping on prey populations: data from the Wana of upland Sulawesi, Indonesia. In Hunting for sustainability in tropical forests, ed. J. Robinson and E. Bennett, pp. 214-230. NY: Columbia U. Press.
Alvard, Michael S. and Nurul Winarni (1999) Avian biodiversity in Morowali Nature Reserve, central Sulawesi, Indonesia and the impact of human subsistence activities. Tropical Biodiversity 6:59-74.
Aswani, Shankar (1998) Patterns of marine harvest effort in southwestern New Georgia, Solomon Islands: resource management or optimal foraging? Ocean & Coastal Management 40:207-235.
Brightman, Robert A. (1987) Conservation and resource depletion: the case of the Boreal Forest Algonquians. In The question of the commons: the culture and ecology of communal resources, ed. Bonnie J. McCay and James M. Acheson, pp. 121‑141. Tucson: U of Arizona Press.
Dean, Rebecca M. (2007) Hunting intensification and the Hohokam "collapse." J. of Anthropological Archaeology 26(1):109-132.
Feit, Harvey A. (1987) Waswanipi Cree management of land and wildlife: Cree ethno‑ecology revisited. In Native People, Native Lands: Canadian Indians, Inuit and Metis, ed. B. Cox, pp. 75‑91. Ottawa: Carleton University Press.
Fienup‑Riordan, Ann (1990) Original ecologists? The relationship between Yup'ik Eskimos and animals. In Eskimo essays, pp. 167‑191. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers U. Press.
Gottesfeld, Leslie M. Johnson (1994) Conservation, territory, and traditional beliefs: an analysis of Gitksan and Wet'suwet'en subsistence, Northwest British Colulmbia, Canada. Human Ecology 22:443‑465.
Grayson, Donald K. and David J. Meltzer (2003) A requiem for North American overkill. J. of Archaeological Science 30:585-593.
Guthrie, R.D. (2006) New carbon dates link climatic change with human colonization and Pleistocene extinctions. Nature 441(7090):207-209.
Hill, Kim, et al. (2000) Sustainability of Ache hunting in the Mbaracayu Reserve, Paraguay. In Sustainability of hunting in tropical forests, ed. John Robinson and E. Bennet, pp. *. NY: Columbia U. Press.
Hunn, Eugene S., et al. (2003) Huna Tlingit traditional environmental knowledge, conservation, and the management of a "wilderness" park. Current Anthropology 44(Supplement):S79-S103.
Kay, Charles (1994) Aboriginal overkill: The role of Native Americans in structuring western ecosystems. Human Nature 5:359-398. [also read Lyman 2004 and Yochim 2001]
Krupnick, Igor (1993) Prehistoric Eskimo whaling in the arctic: slaughter of calves or fortuitous ecology? Arctic Anthropology 30:1‑12.
Ling, S. and E. J. Milner-Gulland (2006) Assessment of the sustainability of bushmeat hunting based on dynamic bioeconomic models. Conservation Biology 20(4):1294-1299.
Lyman, R. Lee (2004) Aboriginal overkill in the Intermountain West of North America: zooarchaeological tests and implications. Human Nature 15(2):169-208. [also read Kay 1994]
Medin, Douglas, et al. (2007) Why folkbiology matters: Resource conflict despite shared goals and knowledge. Human Ecology 35(3):315-329.
Miller, Marc L., John Kaneko, and Paul Bartram (2004) Cultural consensus analysis and environmental anthropology: yellowfin tuna fishery management in Hawaii. Cross-cultural Research 20(10):1-26.
Porcasi, Judith F., Terry L. Jones, and L. Mark Raab (2000) Trans-Holocene marine mammal exploitation on San Clemente Island, California: a tragedy of the commons revisited. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 19:200-220.
Robinson, Catherine J., Dermot Smyth, and Peter J. Whitehead (2005) Bush tucker, bush pets, and bush threats: cooperative management of feral animals in Australia's Kakadu National Park. Conservation Biology 19(5):1385-1391.
Schweik, Charles (2000) Optimal foraging, institutions, and forest change: a case from Nepal. In People and forests: communities, institutions, and governance, ed. Clark C. Gibson, Margaret A. McKean, and Elinor Ostrom, pp. 99-134. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Swezey, Sean L. and Robert F. Heizer (1993) Ritual management of salmonid fish resources in California. In Before the wilderness: environmental management by Native Californians, ed. Thomas C. Blackburn and Kat Anderson, pp. 299‑328. Menlo Park, CA: Ballena Press.
Telfer, WR and MJ Garde (2006) Indigenous knowledge of rock kangaroo ecology in western Arnhem Land, Australia. Human Ecology 34(3):379-406.
Turner, Nancy J. and Fikret Berkes (2006) Coming to understanding: developing conservation through incremental learning in the Pacific Northwest. Human Ecology 34(4):495-513.
Vickers, William T. (1994) From opportunism to nascent conservation: the case of the Siona‑Secoya. Human Nature 5:307‑337.
Wadley, Reed L., Carol J. Pierce Colfer, and Ian G. Hood (1997) Hunting primates and managing forests: the case of Iban forest farmers in Indonesian Borneo. Human Ecology 25(2):243‑271.
Wadley, R.L. and C.J.P. Colfer (2004) Sacred forest, hunting, and conservation in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Human Ecology 32(3):313-338.
Winterhalder, B., and F. Lu. 1997. A forager-resource population ecology model and implications for indigenous conservation. Conservation Biology 11:1354-1364.
Yochim, Michael J. (2001) Aboriginal overkill overstated: errors in Charles Kay's hypothesis. Human Nature 12(2):141‑167. [also read Kay 1994]
Zavaleta, Erika (1999) The emergence of waterfowl conservation among Yup'ik hunters in the Yukon‑Kuskokwim delta, Alaska. Human Ecology 27(2):231‑266.
b. Farming Systems
Anderson, Atholl (1997) Prehistoric Polynesian impact on the New Zealand environment: Te whenua hou. In Historical ecology in the Pacific islands: Prehistoric environmental and landscape change, ed. Patrick V. Kirch and Terry L. Hunt, pp. 271‑283. New Haven: Yale U Press.
Benz, B, H Perales, and S Brush (2007) Tzeltal and Tzotzil farmer knowledge and maize diversity in Chiapas, Mexico. Current Anthropology 48(2):289-300.
Boone, Randall, et al. (2006) Cultivation and conservation in Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania. Human Ecology 34(6):809-828.
Brush, Stephen B. (1986) Genetic diversity and conservation in traditional farming systems. Journal of Ethnobiology 6:151‑167.
Charnley, Susan (1997) Environmentally‑displaced peoples and the cascade effect: lessons from Tanzania. Human Ecology 25(4):593‑618.
Denevan, William M. (1992) The pristine myth: the landscape of the Americas in 1492. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 82:369‑385.
Eghenter, Christina (2000) What is tana ulen good for? Considerations on indigenous forest management, conservation, and research in the interior of Indonesian Borneo. Human Ecology 28(3):331-357.
Emshwiller, Eve (2006) Evolution and conservation of clonally-propagated crops: Insights from AFLP data and folk taxonomy of the Andean tuber. In Darwin's Harvest: New Approaches to the Origins, Evolution, and Conservation of Crops, ed. Timothy Motley, Nyree Zerega, and Hugh Cross, pp. 308-332. NY: Columbia U. Press.
Humphries, Sally (1993) The intensification of traditional agriculture among Yucatec Maya farmers: facing up to the dilemma of livelihood sustainability. Human Ecology 21:87-102.
Janssen, Marco, Timothy A. Kohler, and Marten Scheffer (2003) Sunk-cost effects and vulnerability to collapse in ancient societies. Current Anthropology 44(5):722-728.
Johnson, Allen (1989) How the Machiguenga manage resources: conservation or exploitation of nature? Advances in Economic Botany 7:213-222.
Kandeh, H.B.S. and Paul Richards (1996) Rural people as conservationists: querying neo‑Malthusian assumptions about biodiversity in Sierra Leone. Africa 66(1):90‑103.
McGovern, Thomas H., et al. (1988) Northern islands, human error, and environmental degradation: a view of social and ecological change in the medieval North Atlantic. Human Ecology 16(3):225‑267.
Saberwal, V.K. (1996) Pastoral politics: Gaddi grazing, degradation, and biodiversity conservation in Himachal Pradesh, India. Conservation Biology 10(3):741-749.
Schwartzman, Stephan and Barbara Zimmerman (2005) Conservation alliances with indigenous peoples of the Amazon. Conservation Biology 19(3):721-727.
Walters, Bradley B. (2004) Local management of mangrove forests in the Philippines: Successful conservation or efficient resource exploitation? Human Ecology 32(2):177-195.
Zaldivar, M.E., et al. (2002) Species diversity of edible plants grown in homegardens of Chibchan Amerindians from Costa Rica. Human Ecology 30(3):301 - 316.
Sustainable Development?
Bailey, Robert C. (1996) Promoting biodiversity and empowering local people in Central African forests. In Tropical deforestation: the human dimension, ed. Leslie E. Sponsel, Thomas N. Headland, and Robert C. Bailey, pp. 316-341. NY: Columbia U Press.
Blount, Ben G. (2001) Indigenous peoples and the uses and abuses of ecotourism. In Language, knowledge, and the environment: The interdependence of biological and cultural diversity, ed. Luisa Maffi, pp. 503-516. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.
Chapin, Mac (2004) A challenge to conservationists. World Watch Magazine Nov/Dec, 17-31.
Chhatre, Aswini and Vasant Saberwal (2005) Political incentives for biodiversity conservation. Conservation Biology 19(2):310-317.
Christie, Patrick (2004) Marine protected areas as biological successes and social failures in Southeast Asia. American Fisheries Society Symposium 42:155-164.
Clay, Jason (1996) Generating income and conserving resources: twenty lessons from the field. Washington, D.C.: World Wildlife Fund.
Conklin, Beth and Laura R. Graham (1995) The shifting middle ground: Amazonian Indians and eco‑politics. American Anthropologist 97:695‑710.
Davis, Reade, Jennifer Whalen, and Barbara Neis (2006) From orders to borders: Toward a sustainable co-managed lobster fishery in Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland. Human Ecology 34(6):851-867.
Derman, Bill and Anne Ferguson (1995) Human rights, environment and development; The dispossession of fishing communities on Lake Malawi. Human Ecology 23:125‑142.
Fisher, William H. (1994) Megadevelopment, enviromentalism, and resistance: the institutional context of Kayapo indigenous politics in central Brazil. Human Organization 53(3):220‑232.
Geist, Helmut J. and Eric F. Lambin (2002) Direct causes and underlying driving forces of tropical deforestation. BioScience 52(2):143-150.
Godoy, Ricardo, David Wilkie, and Jeffrey Franks (1997) The effects of markets on neotropical deforestation: a comparative study of four Amerindian societies. Current Anthropology 38:875‑*.
Hartshorn, Gary S. (1995) Ecological basis for sustainable development in tropical forests. Annual Review of Ecological Systems 26:155‑175.
Hecht, Susanna B. (1992) Valuing land uses in Amazonia: colonist agriculture, cattle, and petty extraction in comparative perspective. In Conservation in Neotropical forests: Working from traditional resource use, ed. Kent H. Redford and Christine Padoch, pp. 379‑399. Irvington, NY: Columbia U. Press.
Henrich, Joseph (1997) Market incorporation, agricultural change, and sustainability among the Machiguenga Indians of the Peruvian Amazon. Human Ecology 25(2):319‑351.
Hitchcock, Robert K. (1995) Centralization, resource depletion, and coercive conservation among the Tyua of the northeastern Kalahari. Human Ecology 23:169‑198.
Holt, Flora (2005) The catch-22 of conservation: indigenous peoples, biologists, and cultural change. Human Ecology 33(2):199-215.
Horowitz, Leah Sophie (1998) Integrating indigenous resource management with wildlife conservation: a case study of Batang Ai National Park, Sarawak, Malaysia. Human Ecology 26(3):371‑404.
Johannes, Robert E. (2002) The renaissance of community-based marine resource management in Oceania. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 33:317-340.
Loker, William M. (2003) Dam impacts in a time of globalization: Using multiple methods to document social and environmental change in rural Honduras. Current Anthropology 44(Supplement):S112-S121.
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Ross, A. and K. Pickering (2002) The politics of reintegrating Australian Aboriginal and American Indian indigenous knowledge into resource management: The dynamics of resource appropriation and cultural revival. Human Ecology 30(2):187-214.
Saberwal, V.K. (1996) Pastoral politics: Gaddi grazing, degradation, and biodiversity conservation in Himachal Pradesh, India. Conservation Biology 10(3):741‑749.
Smith, Richard Chase (1996) Biodiversity won't feed our children: biodiversity conservation and economic development in indigenous Amazonia. In Traditional Peoples and Biodiversity: Conservation in Large Tropical Landscapes, ed. Kent H. Redford, Jane A. Mansour, and , pp. 197‑217. Washington, D.C.: Nature Conservancy.
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Stone, Glenn Davis (2002) Both sides now: fallacies in the genetic-modification wars, implications for developing countries, and anthropological perspectives. Current Anthropology 43(4):611-630.
Stonich, Susan C. and Billie R. DeWalt (1996) The political ecology of deforestation in Honduras. In Tropical deforestation: the human dimension, ed. Leslie E. Sponsel, Thomas N. Headland, and Robert C. Bailey, pp. 187‑215. NY: Columbia U Press.
Thibault, M. and S. Blaney (2003) The oil industry as an underlying factor in the bushmeat crisis in Central Africa. Conservation Biology 17(6):1807-1813.
Thompson, M. and K. Homewood (2002) Entrepreneurs, elites, and exclusion in Maasailand: Trends in wildlife conservation and pastoralist development. Human Ecology 30(1):107-138.
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Tucker, C.M., J.C. Randolph, and E.J. Castellanos (2007) Institutions, biophysical factors and history: An integrative analysis of private and common property forests in Guatemala and Honduras. Human Ecology 35(3):259-274.
Waggoner, P.E. and J.H. Ausubel (2002) A framework for sustainability science: A renovated IPAT identity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 99(12):7860-7865.
West, Paige and Dan Brockington (2006) An anthropological perspective on some unexpected consequences of protected areas. Conservation Biology 20(3):609-616.
Western, David and P. Michael Wright, eds. (1994) Natural connections: perspectives in community‑based conservation. Washington, D.C.: Island.
Williams, Dee Mack (1996) Grassland enclosures: catalyst of land degradation in Inner Mongolia. Human Organization 55(3):307‑313.
Young, Emily H. (1999) Balancing conservation with development in small‑scale fisheries: Is ecotourism an empty promise? Human Ecology 27(4):581‑620.