Chapter 1 Introduction
Part 2 Part I. Introductory Essays
Chapter 3 Chapter 1. An Intellectual History of Ecological Anthropology
Chapter 4 Chapter 2. Maori Warfare: Prefiguring Contemporary Directions in Ecological Science
Part 5 Part II. Events Causes and Explanations
Chapter 6 Chapter 3. Explaining Causes in Evolving Contexts: From Nepali Hill Farmers to Business Managers in Thailand
Chapter 7 Chapter 4. Events, Politics, and Environmental Change
Chapter 8 Chapter 5. Orthodoxy and Revision in West African Guinea Savanna Ecology
Chapter 9 Chapter 6. Looking for Cause with All the Small Changes: Using Event Ecology to Find Human Causes of Biological Invasions
Chapter 10 Chapter 7. Shell Games on the Water Bottoms of Louisiana: Investigative Journalism and Anthropological Inquiry
Chapter 11 Chapter 8. Process in an Eventful Environment
Chapter 12 Chapter 9. A New Guinea Culture-Bound Syndrome Revisited: Humility and Monological Authority in Anthropology
Chapter 13 Chapter 10. Deductive-nomological vs. Causal-mechanistic Explanation: Relative Strengths and Weaknesses in Anthropological Explanation
Chapter 14 Chapter 11. Vayda Blues: Explanation in Darwinian Ecological Anthropology
Part 15 Part III. Research on Environment and Development
Chapter 16 Chapter 12. What Kind of Anthropology for Successful Conservation Management and Development?
Chapter 17 Chapter 13. Environmental Conservation and Social Life in Papua New Guinea
Chapter 18 Chapter 14. The Concept of Human Agency in Contemporary Conservation and Development Discourse
Chapter 19 Chapter 15. Using Progressive Contextualization to Understand a Rural Development Success Story in Indonesian Borneo
Chapter 20 Chapter 16. From Understanding to Action: Building on Anthropological Approaches to Influence Policymaking
Chapter 21 Chapter 17. The Relevant Context: Environmental Consequences of Images of the Future
Chapter 22 Chapter 18. Indigenous Knowledge and In Situ Crop Germplasm Conservation
Part 23 Part IV. Concluding Essay
Chapter 24 Chapter 19. Causal Explanation as a Research Goal: A Pragmatic View