Human ecology is ultimately part of a general theory of society.
This is the argument developed here by Roy Ellen, whose exploration
of the interplay between social organization and ecology in
small-scale subsistence systems has direct bearings both on the
investigation of human environmental relations in general and on
contemporary social theory. He argues that while ecological study
of non-industrial societies cannot be elevated to the status of
theory, domain or discipline, it can be represented as a single
'problematic' that historically has acquired some degree of
autonomy and which continues to make a significant contribution to
a wider anthropology. Dr Ellen introduces his subject matter
through an extended and systematic discussion of some major
frameworks developed within the last hundred years to examine and
explain facets of the relationship between culture, social
organization and the environment: determinism, possibilism,
cultural ecology, systems theory and ideas derived from modern
biology. He follows this with a detailed review and appraisal of
important recent research involving the use of ecological models,
methods and data. This original and innovative study of the
pre-eminently social character of human ecological relations will
be of considerable interest to all students and researchers
concerned with understanding the nature of the relationship between
human beings and their environments.
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