Author: Guy J. Pauker
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Human Values in Social Change in South and Southeast Asia and in the United States
Cultural Values and Human Ecology in Southeast Asia
Author: Karl Hutterer
Publisher: U OF M CENTER FOR SOUTH EAST ASIAN STUDI
ISBN: 0891480390
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
Ecologists have long based their conceptual frameworks in the natural sciences. Recently, however, they have acknowledged that ecosystems cannot be understood without taking into account human interventions that may have taken place for thousands of years. And for their part, social scientists have recognized that human behavior must be understood in the environment in which it is acted out. Researchers have thus begun to develop the area of “human ecology.” Yet human ecology needs suitable conceptual frameworks to tie the human and natural together. In response, Cultural Values and Human Ecology uses the framework of cultural values to collect a set of highly diverse contributions to the field of human ecology. Values represent an important and essential aspect of the intellectual organization of a society, integrated into and ordained by the over-arching cosmological system, and constituting the meaningful basis for action, in terms of concreteness and abstraction of content as well as mutability and permanence. Because of this balance, values lend themselves to the kinds of analyses of ecological relationships conducted here, those that demand a reasonable amount of specificity as well as historical stability. The contributions to Cultural Values and Human Ecology are exceedingly diverse. They include abstract theoretical discussions and specific case studies, ranging across the landscape of Southeast Asia from the islands to southern China. They deal with hunting-gathering populations as well as peasants operating within contemporary nation-states, and they are the work of natural scientists, social scientists, and humanists of Western and Asian origin. Diversity in the backgrounds of the authors contributes most to the varied approaches to the theme of this volume, because differences in cultural background and academic tradition will lead to different research interests and to differences in the empirical approaches chosen to pursue given problems.
Publisher: U OF M CENTER FOR SOUTH EAST ASIAN STUDI
ISBN: 0891480390
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
Ecologists have long based their conceptual frameworks in the natural sciences. Recently, however, they have acknowledged that ecosystems cannot be understood without taking into account human interventions that may have taken place for thousands of years. And for their part, social scientists have recognized that human behavior must be understood in the environment in which it is acted out. Researchers have thus begun to develop the area of “human ecology.” Yet human ecology needs suitable conceptual frameworks to tie the human and natural together. In response, Cultural Values and Human Ecology uses the framework of cultural values to collect a set of highly diverse contributions to the field of human ecology. Values represent an important and essential aspect of the intellectual organization of a society, integrated into and ordained by the over-arching cosmological system, and constituting the meaningful basis for action, in terms of concreteness and abstraction of content as well as mutability and permanence. Because of this balance, values lend themselves to the kinds of analyses of ecological relationships conducted here, those that demand a reasonable amount of specificity as well as historical stability. The contributions to Cultural Values and Human Ecology are exceedingly diverse. They include abstract theoretical discussions and specific case studies, ranging across the landscape of Southeast Asia from the islands to southern China. They deal with hunting-gathering populations as well as peasants operating within contemporary nation-states, and they are the work of natural scientists, social scientists, and humanists of Western and Asian origin. Diversity in the backgrounds of the authors contributes most to the varied approaches to the theme of this volume, because differences in cultural background and academic tradition will lead to different research interests and to differences in the empirical approaches chosen to pursue given problems.
Two Sides of One World
Author: Arthur Goodfriend
Publisher:
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Summary Minutes of ... Meeting
Author: U.S. National Commission for UNESCO. Executive Committee. Meeting
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Category : International cooperation
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Publisher:
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Category : International cooperation
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Publications of the Department of State; a Quarterly List
Author: United States. Department of State
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
Publications of the Dept. of State
Author: United States. Department of State
Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Each vol. in 3 pts.: Periodicals; Subject list; Index by series.
Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Each vol. in 3 pts.: Periodicals; Subject list; Index by series.
Development Administration and Assistance
Author: Richard W. Gable
Publisher:
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Category : Developing countries
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Developing countries
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Paths of Action Toward Asian-American Understanding and Cooperation
Author: Arthur Goodfriend
Publisher:
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Asia and the United States : what the American Can Do to Promote Mutual Understanding and Cooperation
Author: United States. Department of State
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Singapore
Author: Garry Rodan
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351758128
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
This title was first published in 2001. A collection of valuable, previously published essays analyzing the major social dynamics shaping the increasingly complex society, economy and polity of contemporary Singapore. Topics range from ideology and culture to the character of the state and its institutions and the possibilities for political reform.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351758128
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
This title was first published in 2001. A collection of valuable, previously published essays analyzing the major social dynamics shaping the increasingly complex society, economy and polity of contemporary Singapore. Topics range from ideology and culture to the character of the state and its institutions and the possibilities for political reform.