... and ecological contexts. The complex and interwoven nature of social and ecological contexts in which actors operate not only imposes limits and threats on human and nonhuman actors but also allows them to operate in a certain manner. Therefore, it is crucial to grasp the wholeness of relations in the contexts...

...). Instead, for the tribal people of the Niti Valley, the mountain landscape was at once the ground for veneration, material resources, and knowledge. Social and ecological survival hinged upon relations of reciprocity in which humans learn from nonhumans. “Our ancestors identified which grass, which tree's...

.... Contributions by professional anthropologists discuss topics considered in the 1950s and 1960s when the New Guinea Highlands were first studied intensively. These include cultural ecology, problems of social structure, and gender relations. Several of the studies make use of or refer to theoretical frameworks...

... investigations of how power shapes environmental relations and how politics plays a role in the co-constitution of nature and society. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2021 2021 activism cultural ecology environment epidemics legibility Mesopotamia Neolithic political ecology...

... as the legal, behavioral, health-related, and public policy aspects of social ecology. Similarly, because the present text stresses domestic hinterlands regions and natural resources degradation issues, future work should include urban and transboundary settings and environmental pollution issues all BOOK...

... historicizing a “system of social-ecological systems.” “This perspective sees China and its constituent parts as systems of interconnected elements—land, water, air, trees, crops, animals, bacteria, chemicals, people, policies, organizations, laws, literature, film, art, values and beliefs—and shows how...

..., but as a distinctive transdisciplinary perspective on peoples' relations with the environment. The human ecology approach, informed by systems theory, seeks to understand the behavior of and relationships among ecosystems and social systems, in a way that clarifies their essential interdependence. The first part...

...Donald A. Messerschmidt Changing Aspects of Modern Nepal: Relating to the Ecology, Agriculture and Her People . Edited by Shigeru Iijima . Tokyo : Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (Monumenta Serindica No. 1), 1977 . vi, 118 pp. Tables, Figures...

... of how Thai development may be related to a regional geopolitics in which Thai resource demands are leading to the replication of many of the social and ecological ills first experienced in Thailand in this country's "less developed" neighbors. Yet the export of Thai-style environmentalism is also under...

... experience on the ground. Such variability emanates not only from the fragmented structures of the Chinese state but also from the complex temporalities, social class positions, and spatial structures of citizens and community groups that are folded into the state's project of ecological civilization...

... metaphor to describe the symbiosis of a population group and its environment. In the hands of social scientists, especially at the University of Chicago—notably, the geographer Harlan H. Barrows and the sociologist Robert Park—this concept came to be known as “human ecology.” In a mystical, poetic essay...

... and economic structures on family life, community formation, political attitudes, and relations with both Africans and whites. At the same time he shows the resiliency and ingenuity of the Indian working class, and the creative use of their historic cultural base. Strongly documented in the available social...

...Daniel Little Smallholders, Householders: Farm Families and the Ecology of Intensive, Sustainable Agriculture . By Robert McC. Netting . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1993 . xxi, 389 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 BOOK REVIEWS ASIA...

... highly unequally. As environmental degradation has become ubiquitous in the country, questions have also been raised as to the ecological merits of this process. There is growing doubt today as to the social and environmental viability of Thailand's "growth-first" development model. Counting the Costs...

... by the editors not as a separate discipline, but as a distinctive transdisciplinary perspective on peoples' relations with the environment. The human ecology approach, informed by systems theory, seeks to understand the behavior of and relationships among ecosystems and social systems, in a way that clarifies...

...Martin W. Lewis Biodiversity: Social and Ecological Perspectives . By Vandana Shiva , et al. London and New Jersey : Zed Books . 123 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 BOOK REVIEWS ASIA GENERAL 871 "fundamentalism," what he discusses...

... of contemporary issues and the power relations that imbue resource- 1206 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I A N S T U D I E S related con icts. The potential for practical applications, however, is less fully addressed; for a deeper investigation of social justice issues, one might turn to Charles Zerner s edited...

... through the “material weave of other persons; objects; biological, social and economic processes; relations of power; symbols; ideas; life forms; and environments” (p. 27). In making this argument, Whitmore puts religious studies scholarship on sacred geographies into productive conversation with more...

...Nabaparna Ghosh Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta . By Debjani Bhattacharyya . New Delhi : Cambridge University Press , 2018 . xvi, 241 pp. ISBN: 9781108425742 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2020 2020 Debjani Bhattacharyya's pathbreaking work...

... with the economic infrastructure ( the so-called relations of production and productive forces [p. 12]) without investigating the ecological context that is, the soil, water, animal, mineral, and vegetative bases of society in which the infrastructure is embedded. And so, as they write in their introduction, [w]e...