A Necessary Unity
The Articulation of Ecological and Social Explanations of Behaviour
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2579291 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M Minnegal (0000-0001-5008-3770, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 141 |
| Publication date | 1996-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1359-0987 • E-ISSN: 1467-9655 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3034637 |
| OpenAlex | W2315392909 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 26 |
This article is concerned with the way that ecological and social factors interact to influence behaviour, and takes issue with those who ascribe causal priority to one or the other set of factors. Ecological relationships are identified as those that affect the material outcome that can be expected from an action; social relationships are identified as those that affect the use an actor could make of that outcome. This distinction maps onto that between production and consumption, between the simultaneous acquisition and utilization of resources which is entailed in all action. Both classes of relationship constrain the value of an action and thus affect the probability of its reproduction; they should be understood as mutually constitutive systems, articulated through the actor. Explanations which emphasize ecological constraints on behaviour, and explanations which emphasize social constraints, are shown to trace different paths through the same field of relationships between persons and environments
Action (physics · Affect (linguistics · Articulation (sociology · Biology · Consumption (sociology · Ecological systems theory · Economics · Field (mathematics · Microeconomics · Outcome (game theory · Political science · Reproduction · Set (abstract data type · Social science · Sociology · TRACE (psycholinguistics) · Value (mathematics · Communication · Community Health and Development · Computer Science · Ecology · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies · Mathematics · Psychology · Social Psychology · Social Representations and Identity
Politics and history in band societies
Evolutionary Ecology and the Social Sciences
Intensification and Australian Prehistory
The appropriation of nature
Material culture and mass consumption
Rise of Anthropological Theory
The World of Goods
Women, Productive Roles, and Monetisation of the ‘Service Mode’ in Aboriginal Australia
Andaman Islanders, Pygmies, and an extension of Horn's model
Ecology and community dynamics of Kubo people in the tropical lowlands of Papua New Guinea
Where we gana go now
Female subsistence strategies among Ache hunter-gatherers of Eastern Paraguay
Men's time allocation to subsistence work among the Ache of Eastern Paraguay
Anti‐essentialism and Overdetermination – A Response to Dick Peet
Infrastructures, Societies and History
Seasonal variance in the diet of Ache hunter-gatherers in Eastern Paraguay
Actions, Variations, And Change
The Anthropology of Time
Observing the Economy
Gatherer-hunter to farmer
Explaining Technical Change
The Gender of the Gift
Marxism, Structuralism and Vulgar Materialism
Why Hunters Gather
The Giving Environment
From reproduction to production
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2022 (17) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |