Socioeconomic aspects of human behavioral ecology

• Other Authors: Alvard, Michael S.
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2004.
• Series: Research in economic anthropology ; v. 23.
• Subjects: Business & Economics > Management Science.; Science > Life Sciences > Human Anatomy & Physiology.; Sociology.; Anthropology.; Economic anthropology.; Economic development > Cross-cultural studies.; Consumption (Economics) > Cross-cultural studies.

As a field, anthropology brings an explicit evolutionary approach to the study of human behavior. Each of anthropology's four main subfields - sociocultural, biological, archaeology, and linguistic anthropology - acknowledges that Homo sapiens has a long evolutionary history that must be acknow...