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Interview of Andrew Vayda
No full textInterview of Profess Andrew Vayda about his life and work as a senior anthropologis
Anthony Leeds et Andrew P. Vayda, eds., Man, culture and animals : the role of animals in human ecological adjustments.
No full textDe Planhol Xavier. Anthony Leeds et Andrew P. Vayda, eds., Man, culture and animals : the role of animals in human ecological adjustments. . In: Études rurales, n°31, 1968. pp. 149-150
Bugis settlers in East Kalimantan’s Kutai National Park: their past and present and some possibilities for their future
No full textWhat policies should be adopted regarding enclave populations in national parks and other protected areas and how should the policies be implemented? These questions are important for protected areas throughout the world. Andrew P. Vayda and Ahmad Sahur report here on socio-economic and historical research that they conducted in the rapidly industrialising Indonesian province of East Kalimantan to help deal with such questions. They use their findings to make practical recommendations about relocating Bugis farmers and fishers from East Kalimantan's Kutai National Park and to assess relocation as an alternative to maintaining the status quo with respect to settlements within the Park's lowland rainforest. In addition, their findings are used to challenge some widely held generalisations about the impoverished condition of forest settlers, the preferability of land to only cash to those who might be resettled, and the inter-relations between urban/industrial employment and forest destruction. The report is methodologically interesting as well. It shows how data collection and analysis may be guided by the goal of obtaining causal histories of events (including such events as forest-clearing in particular places at particular times and past changes in work and residence by settlers in the National Park). It shows how data collection and analysis, thus guided, may lead to significant research findings not obtained by investigators using rapid appraisal and standard survey methods and pre-set questionnaires. Also featured in the report are some methodological reflections on the value and limitations of applying general knowledge and cultural information, and on the need for information about particular historical events, in studies like Vayda and Sahur's. In their research in and around Kutai National Park in 1996, Vayda and Sahur were resuming a collaboration begun in East Kalimantan sixteen years earlier. Andrew P. Vayda is Professor of Anthropology and Ecology at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA, and was, at the time of the research reported here, a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at CIFOR. Ahmad Sahur lectures in anthropology at Hasanuddin University, Ujung Pandang, South Sulawesi, Indonesia, and serves there also as an assistant dean
Methods and explanations in the study of human actions and their environmental effects. CIFOR/WWF Special Publication.
No full textAndrew P. Vayda, drawing on his long experience in studying the relations between people and their environments, addresses here the question of how human influences can be better incorporated into ecological studies. Citing relevant sources from the literature of philosophy as well as social and biological science, he argues that we should be guided in our research by the goal of giving causal explanations of concrete human behaviour and its concrete environmental effects. Existing theories and models may have a role in guiding such efforts, but developing or testing the theories and models need not be made the main objective.Before illustrating his advocated approach with various studies (including his own research in Indonesian forests), Professor Vayda considers other approaches and indicates problems with them because of their failure to give due consideration to the chains of causally connected events leading to specific actions and their effects. Among the problematic approaches are those which assume that human behaviour affecting the environment is governed by basic conceptualisations or values concerning nature or the environment. Certain systems approaches to the study of environment-related human behaviour are also critically examined
REVIEW
No full textWar in Ecological Perspective. By Andrew P. Vayda. Plenum Publishing Corporation, New York, 1976. Price: $US17.94. Pp. xiv + 129
The issue of the environmental anthropology depicted by Patrycja K. Townsend
No full textEnvironmental anthropology is a much wider term than ecology itself because of its extensive and diverse issues. The environmental questions appeared significantly in anthropology in the 1950 s with the Julian Stewards cultural ecology. Later Andrew Vayda and Roy Rappaport suggested the term known as ecosystem ecology. From the late 1970s, evolutionary ecology has become more popular. The other attempts to the issues of the natural environment within the confines of anthropology are ethnoecology, historic ecology, global ecology, and landscape ecology. The article presents environmental anthropology depicted by P. K. Townsed.Environmental anthropology is a much wider term than ecology itself because of its extensive and diverse issues. The environmental questions appeared significantly in anthropology in the 1950 s with the Julian Stewards cultural ecology. Later Andrew Vayda and Roy Rappaport suggested the term known as ecosystem ecology. From the late 1970s, evolutionary ecology has become more popular. The other attempts to the issues of the natural environment within the confines of anthropology are ethnoecology, historic ecology, global ecology, and landscape ecology. The article presents environmental anthropology depicted by P. K. Townsed.Environmental anthropology is a much wider term than ecology itself because of its extensive and diverse issues. The environmental questions appeared significantly in anthropology in the 1950 s with the Julian Stewards cultural ecology. Later Andrew Vayda and Roy Rappaport suggested the term known as ecosystem ecology. From the late 1970s, evolutionary ecology has become more popular. The other attempts to the issues of the natural environment within the confines of anthropology are ethnoecology, historic ecology, global ecology, and landscape ecology. The article presents environmental anthropology depicted by P. K. Townsed.Environmental anthropology is a much wider term than ecology itself because of its extensive and diverse issues. The environmental questions appeared significantly in anthropology in the 1950 s with the Julian Stewards cultural ecology. Later Andrew Vayda and Roy Rappaport suggested the term known as ecosystem ecology. From the late 1970s, evolutionary ecology has become more popular. The other attempts to the issues of the natural environment within the confines of anthropology are ethnoecology, historic ecology, global ecology, and landscape ecology. The article presents environmental anthropology depicted by P. K. Townsed
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