Cultural values and human ecology in Southeast Asia / / edited by Karl L. Hutterer, A. Terry Rambo and George Lovelace

• Autore: Hutterer Karl
• Pubblicazione: 2020; Ann Arbor, Michigan : , : University of Michigan Press, , 1985
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 417 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 304.20959
• Soggetto topico: Human ecology - Southeast Asia; Ethnology - Southeast Asia
• Classificazione: SCI026000SOC000000SOC008000
• Altri autori: LovelaceGeorge W RamboA. Terry HuttererKarl L
• Note generali: A one-week conference, June 1983: "jointly sponsored by the East-West Environment and Policy Institute (EAPI), the Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies of University of Michigan, and the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies of the University of Hawaii ..."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographies.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- I. Background -- 2. Cultural Values and Human Ecology: Some Initial Considerations -- 3. People and Nature in the Tropics: Remarks Concerning Ecological Relationships -- 4. Ecology, Anthropology, and Values in Amazonia -- II. Case Studies and Thematic Discussions -- 5. Stone Walls and Waterfalls: Irrigation and Ritual Regulation in the Central Cordillera, Northern Philippines -- 6. Memory, Myth, and History: Traditional Agriculture and Structure in Mandaya Society -- 7. Boundary and Batik: A Study in Ambiguous Categories -- 8. People and Nature in Javanese Shadow Plays -- 9. Constancy and Change in Agroecosystems -- 10. In the Long Term: Three Themes in Malayan Cultural Ecology -- 11. Changing Values in Market Trading: A Thai Muslim Case Study -- 12. Ideology, Culture, and the Human Environment -- 13. Some Effects of the Dai People's Cultural Beliefs and Practices on the Plant Environment of Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, Southwest China -- 14. Man, Land, and Mind in Early Historic Hong Kong -- III. Commentaries -- 15. Development Issues -- 16. Paradigms, Perceptions, and Changing Reality.
• Sommario/riassunto: Ecologists have long based their conceptual frameworks in the natural sciences. Recently, however, they have acknowledged that ecosystems cannot be understood without taking into account human interventions that may have taken place for thousands of years. And for their part, social scientists have recognized that human behavior must be understood in the environment in which it is acted out. Researchers have thus begun to develop the area of "human ecology." Yet human ecology needs suitable conceptual frameworks to tie the human and natural together. In response, Cultural Values and Human Ecology uses the framework of cultural values to collect a set of highly diverse contributions to the field of human ecology. Values represent an important and essential aspect of the intellectual organization of a society, integrated into and ordained by the over-arching cosmological system, and constituting the meaningful basis for action, in terms of concreteness and abstraction of content as well as mutability and permanence. Because of this balance, values lend themselves to the kinds of analyses of ecological relationships conducted here, those that demand a reasonable amount of specificity as well as historical stability. The contributions to Cultural Values and Human Ecology are exceedingly diverse. They include abstract theoretical discussions and specific case studies, ranging across the landscape of Southeast Asia from the islands to southern China. They deal with hunting-gathering populations as well as peasants operating within contemporary nation-states, and they are the work of natural scientists, social scientists, and humanists of Western and Asian origin. Diversity in the backgrounds of the authors contributes most to the varied approaches to the theme of this volume, because differences in cultural background and academic tradition will lead to different research interests and to differences in the empirical approaches chosen to pursue given problems.
• Titolo autorizzato: Cultural Values and Human Ecology in Southeast Asia
• ISBN: 9780472128297; 0472128299; 9780891480396; 0891480390
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910418347403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Michigan papers on South and Southeast Asia ; ; no. 27.