Cultural ecology studies the relationship between a given society and its natural environment, the life-forms and ecosystems that support its lifeways. This may be carried out diachronically (examining entities that existed in different epochs), or synchronically (examining a present system and its components).

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  • Cultural ecology studies the relationship between a given society and its natural environment, the life-forms and ecosystems that support its lifeways. This may be carried out diachronically (examining entities that existed in different epochs), or synchronically (examining a present system and its components). The central argument is that the natural environment, in small scale or subsistence societies dependent in part upon it - is a major contributor to social organization and other human institutions. Particularly those concerned with the distribution of wealth and power in a society, and how that affects such behaviour as hoarding or gifting (e.g. the Haida tradition of the potlatch on the Canadian west-coast). In the academic realm, when combined with study of political economy, the study of economies as polities, it becomes political ecology, another academic subfield. It also helps interrogate historical events like the Easter Island Syndrome.
  • L'ecologia culturale è il filone di ricerca delle scienze etnoantropologiche che investiga le relazioni tra gli aspetti socio-culturali dei gruppi umani e l'ambiente nel quale vivono, in stretto rapporto con altre discipline quali ecologia, geografia umana, biologia, archeologia, economia, demografia. Tale branca disciplinare fu proposta per la prima volta da Julian Steward nel 1955, nel testo Theory of Culture Change; The Methodology of Multilinear Evolution.
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  • Cultural ecology studies the relationship between a given society and its natural environment, the life-forms and ecosystems that support its lifeways. This may be carried out diachronically (examining entities that existed in different epochs), or synchronically (examining a present system and its components).
  • L'ecologia culturale è il filone di ricerca delle scienze etnoantropologiche che investiga le relazioni tra gli aspetti socio-culturali dei gruppi umani e l'ambiente nel quale vivono, in stretto rapporto con altre discipline quali ecologia, geografia umana, biologia, archeologia, economia, demografia. Tale branca disciplinare fu proposta per la prima volta da Julian Steward nel 1955, nel testo Theory of Culture Change; The Methodology of Multilinear Evolution.
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  • Cultural ecology
  • Ecologia culturale
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