1. AGRARIAN ECOLOGY.
- Author
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Netting, Robert McC.
- Subjects
AGRICULTURAL ecology ,ANTHROPOLOGY ,AGRICULTURAL sociology ,AGRICULTURAL development ,AGRICULTURE & the environment ,AGRICULTURAL conservation ,AGRONOMY ,ECOLOGY ,FOOD science ,SOCIAL sciences - Abstract
The article presents an anthropological research on agriculture which begin in the gross differentiation of types, the charting of their global distribution, and their association with evolutionary stages. Anthropology's past neglect of the study of agriculture is basically due to the belief that basic food production is a dull, routine, grubby, and very much a background activity. However, this attitude towards agricultural research has resulted to a poorly organized messages emanating from ecological and economic systems with the relatively more rigid and determinate messages of low information coming from ideological systems like religion, kinship, and politics in the field of agriculture.
- Published
- 1974
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