Table of Contents

I. Foraging.- 1. Australian Aboriginal Subsistence in the Western Desert.- 2. The Ecological Basis of Hunter-Gatherer Subsistence in African Rain Forests: The Mbuti of Eastern Zaire.- 3. Batak Foraging Camps Today: A Window to the History of a Hunting-Gathering Economy.- 4. Northern Islands, Human Error, and Environmental Degradation.- II. Pastoralism.- 5. Who Survives Drought? Measuring Winners and Losers among the Ariaal Rendille Pastoralists of Kenya.- 6. Coping with Drought: Responses of Herders and Livestock in Contrasting Savanna Environments in Southern Zimbabwe.- 7. From Zomo to Yak: Change in a Sherpa Village.- 8. What Alpine Peasants Have in Common: Observations on a Communal Tenure in a Swiss Village.- III. Subsistence and Intensive Agriculture.- 9. Changing Household Composition, Labor Patterns, and Fertility in a Highland New Guinea Population.- 10. Variation and Change in Fertility in West Central Nepal.- 11. Land Use, Soil Loss, and Sustainable Agriculture in Rwanda.- 12. Agricultural Intensification in a Philippine Frontier Community: Impact on Labor Efficiency and Farm Diversity.- 13. Seventeenth-Century Organic Agriculture in China.- 14. Kofyar Cash-Cropping: Choice and Change in Indigenous Agricultural Development.- 15. Time, Space, and Transnational Flows: Critical Historical Conjunctures and Explaining Change in Northern Nigerian Agriculture.- 16. Ecology and Mormon Settlement in Northeastern Arizona.

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