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• ISBN: 0820306886
• ISBN: 9780820306889
• ISBN: 0820307092
• ISBN: 9780820307091
• Physical Description: ix, 197 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
• Publisher: Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, ©1984.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-193).

Formatted Contents Note:

The context of cultural ecology in highland environments / Burton L. Purrington -- Agro-pastoral land use and the tragedy of the commons in the central Andes / David W. Guillet -- Mountain refuge area adaptations / Christopher Boehm -- Education and social mobility : some parallels between Appalachia and the Alps / John Friedl -- Industrialization, class, and regional consciousness in two highland societies : Wales and Appalachia / Helen M. Lewis -- Appalachian cultural adaptations : an overview / Patricia D. Beaver -- The sacrifice of nature : a study in the social product of consciousness / Allen Batteau -- Snowbird Cherokees : adaptation and ethnic preservation in the southern Appalachians / Sharlotte Neely -- Religion and place in southern Appalachia / Richard Humphrey -- Land ownership, power, and powerlessness in the Appalachian highlands / John Gaventa -- The anthropology of highland peoples / Stephen B. Brush -- Reflections on mountain adaptations / Gilbert Kushner.

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Subject:

Mountain people > Congresses.
Human beings > Effect of environment on > Congresses.
Appalachian Region, Southern > Social life and customs > Congresses.
Acclimatization.
Altitude.
Anthropology, Cultural.
Culture.
Environment.
Appalachian Region.
Human beings > Effect of environment on.
Manners and customs.
Mountain people.
Appalachian Region, Southern.

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Congresses.
Conference papers and proceedings.

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• Southern Anthropological Society proceedings ; no. 17
• Southern Anthropological Society proceedings ; no. 17.