Ecology and Culture

Reading Schedule

I have done my best to organize the lectures and readings so that they compliment one another. If you follow the schedule, the readings will make a lot more sense than if you wait until the night before the quiz or exam.

The topic title will link you to the study guide and to supplemental material.

Lecture		Date		Topic		Reading		Notes
1	M 2 Feb		Course Goals		Hardin 1968		Syllabus Distribution
2	W 4 Feb		Culture and Environment		Childe 1951
3	M 9 Feb		Ecology: Populations		Hardesty: 123-142
4	W 11 Feb		Ecology: Population Interaction		Hardesty: 143-160
	M 16 Feb						Presidents’ Day
5	W 18 Feb		Ecology: Population Growth		Hardesty: 161-176		Academic Monday
6	M 23 Feb
7	W 25 Feb		Ecology: Regulation		Hardesty: 177-193
8	M 1 March
9	W 3 March		Cultural Ecology		Stewart 1955
10	M 8 March		Ecosystems		Rappaport 1967
11	W 10 March		Cultural Materialism		Divale and Harris 1976
12	M 15 March		Foragers		Sahlins 1972 Lee 1968
13	W 17 March		Slash and Burn		Carneiro 1956 Vayda 1961
14	M 22 March		Pastoralism		Barth 1956
15	W 24 March		Horticulture		Sahlins 1957
16	M 29 March		Contact Ecology		Cronon Changes
17	W 31 March				Cronon
18	W 14 April				Cronon
19	M 19 April		Pleistocene Overkill		Martin 1967		Cronon Review due
20	W 21 April		Maya Agriculture		Rice 1991
21	M 26 April		Technological Change		Sharp 1952 Gross 1971
22	W 28 April		Global Markets and the Beaver		Krech 1999
23	M 3 May		Centralization		McGovern 1994 Lees 1976
24	W 5 May		Politics of Cod Experts		McGuire 1997 Baker 1981
25	M 10 May		Water Wars		Shiva 2003
26	W 12 May
27	M 17 May
28	W 19 May						Shiva Review due
	F 21 May		Final Exam		11:00 – 1:00

Baker, Randall 1981 “Development” and the Pastoral People of Karamoja, North-Eastern Uganda: An Example of the Treatment of Symptoms. In Contemporary Anthropology, D.G. Bates and S. H. Leeds (Eds.), pp 66-78. Knopf, New York.

Barth, Fredrick 1956 Ecologic Relationships of Ethnic Groups in Swat, North Pakistan. American Anthropologist 58:6:1079-1089.

Carneiro, Robert L. 1960 Slash and Burn Agriculture: A Closer Look at its Implications for Settlement Patterns. In Men and Cultures, Wallace, Anthony (Ed.).

Childe, V. Gordon 1951 The Neolithic Revolution. Man Makes Himself. Watts, London.

Divale, W.T. and M. Harris

1976 Population, Warfare, and the Male Supremacist Complex. American Anthropologist 78:521-538.

Gross, Daniel R. 1971 The Great Sisal Scheme. Natural History 80:8:243-247.

Hardesty, Donald L. 1977 Ecological Anthropology. Wiley, New York.

Hardin, Garrett 1968 The Tragedy of the Commons. Science 162:1243-1248.

Krech, Shepard 1999 Beaver. In The Ecological Indian. Norton, New York.

Lee, Richard B. 1968 What Hunters Do For a Living, or, How to Make Out on Scarce Resources. In Man the Hunter, Lee, R.B. and DeVore, I.(Eds), Aldine, New York.

Lees, Susan H. 1976 Hydraulic Development and Political Response in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico. Anthropology Quarterly 49:3:197-210.

Martin, Paul S. 1967 Pleistocene Overkill. Natural History, December, 1967.

McGovern, T. H. 1994 Management of Extinction in Norse Greenland. In Historical Ecology, Carole Crumley (Ed). SAR Press, Santa Fe.

McGuire, T. R. 1997 The Last Northern Cod. Journal of Political Ecology 4:41-54.

Rappaport, Roy A. 1967 Ritual Regulation of Environmental Relations Among a New Guinea People. Ethnology 6:1: 17-30.

Rice, Don S. 1991 Roots. Natural History Feb. 1991: 10-14.

Sahlins, Marshall

1957 Land Use and the Extended Family in Moala, Fiji. American Anthropologist 59:3:449-462.

1972 The Original Affluent Society. In Stone Age Economics, Aldine, New York.

Sharp, Lauriston 1952 Steel Axes for Stone-Age Australians. Human Organization 11:17-22.

Steward, Julian H 1955 The Great Basin Shoshonean Indians: An Example of a Family Level of Sociocultural Integration. In Theory of Culture Change: the Methodology of Multilinear Evolution, University of Illinois Press, Chicago.

Vayda, Andrew P. 1961 Expansion and Warfare among Swidden Agriculturalists. American Anthropologist 63:2:346-358.