Cultural Values and Human Ecology in Southeast Asia
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...
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-344972025-03-13T01:01:54Z Cultural Values and Human Ecology in Southeast Asia Hutterer, Karl L. Terry Rambo, A. Lovelace, George Sociology and anthropology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology 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. 2021-02-10T14:17:45Z 2021-02-10T14:17:45Z 2020-09-23T15:19:40Z 2020 book ONIX_20200923_9780472902293_51 OCN: 1276901673 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/41855 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/34497 eng Michigan Papers On South And Southeast Asia open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/41855/1/9780472902293.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/41855/1/9780472902293.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/41855/1/9780472902293.pdf University of Michigan Press U OF M CENTER FOR SOUTH EAST ASIAN STUDI 10.3998/mpub.19463 10.3998/mpub.19463 b7359529-e5f7-4510-a59f-d7dafa1d4d17 National Endowment for the Humanities Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 0314e571-4102-4526-b014-3ed8f2d6750a 0cdc3d7c-5c59-49ed-9dba-ad641acd8fd1 U OF M CENTER FOR SOUTH EAST ASIAN STUDI 428 Ann Arbor [grantnumber unknown] [grantnumber unknown] open access |
| spellingShingle | Sociology and anthropology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology Cultural Values and Human Ecology in Southeast Asia |
| title | Cultural Values and Human Ecology in Southeast Asia |
| title_full | Cultural Values and Human Ecology in Southeast Asia |
| title_fullStr | Cultural Values and Human Ecology in Southeast Asia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Cultural Values and Human Ecology in Southeast Asia |
| title_short | Cultural Values and Human Ecology in Southeast Asia |
| title_sort | cultural values and human ecology in southeast asia |
| topic | Sociology and anthropology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology |
| topic_facet | Sociology and anthropology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology |
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