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      Culture and Environment: The Study of Cultural Ecology
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      Culture and Environment: The Study of Cultural Ecology

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      Culture and Environment: The Study of Cultural Ecology book

      Edited ByROBERT A MANNERS, DAVID KAPLAN
      BookTheory In Anthropol Liban V86

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      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 1968
      Imprint Routledge
      Pages 7
      eBook ISBN 9781315017990
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      ABSTRACT

      Another outlook appears. At first it was only as an offhand remark, a critical argument. Now it informs some of the best work in American archaeology and ethnology: It is an idea of reciprocity, of a dialogue between cultures and their environments. The truism that cultures are ways of life, taken in a new light, is the ground premise-cultures are human adaptations. Cul­ ture, as a design for society’s continuity, stip­ ulates its environment. By its mode of produc­ tion, by the material requirements of its social structure, in its standardized perceptions, a cul­ ture assigns relevance to particular external conditions. Even its historic movement is move­ ment along the ecologic seam it is organized to exploit. Yet a culture is shaped by these, its own, commitments: it molds itself to significant external conditions to maximize the life chances. There is an interchange between culture and environment, perhaps continuous dialectic inter­ change, if in adapting the culture transforms its

      From Sol Tax (Ed.), Horizons in Anthropology. Copyright © 1964 by Aldine Publishing Company. Reprinted by permission of the publisher and the author. Marshall D. Sahlins is Professor of An­thropology, University of Michigan.

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