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

by Roy F. Ellen

Book Overview

Human ecology is ultimately part of a general theory of society. This is the argument developed here by Roy Ellen, whose exploration of the interplay between social organization and ecology in small-scale subsistence systems has direct bearings both on the investigation of human environmental relations in general and on contemporary social theory. He argues that while ecological study of non-industrial societies cannot be elevated to the status of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521287030
• ISBN13: 9780521287036
• Release Date: September 1982
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"