New Ecology and the Social Sciences: What Prospects for a Fruitful Engagement?

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  1999

• Venue

  Annual Review of Anthropology

• Publication date

  1999-10-01

• Fields of study

  Political Science, Sociology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1146/ANNUREV.ANTHRO.28.1.479
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