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Andrew P. Vayda's Degrees

PhD Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Anthropology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Andrew P. "Pete" Vayda was a Hungarian-born American anthropologist and ecologist who was a distinguished professor emeritus of anthropology and ecology at Rutgers University. Biographical background Vayda was born in Budapest, Hungary, on December 7, 1931. He came to the United States in 1939 with his mother. He grew up in New York City. He attended Columbia University, obtaining his B.A. in 1952 and his Ph.D. in anthropology in 1956. His dissertation, based on library research he had done in New Zealand in 1954–1955, was a detailed description and analysis of Maori warfare.

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Proxemics [and Comments and Replies] (1968) (478)
Against Political Ecology (1999) (374)
New Directions in Ecology and Ecological Anthropology (1975) (280)
Progressive contextualization: Methods for research in human ecology (1983) (207)
The Cultural Ecology of India's Sacred Cattle [and Comments and Replies] (1966) (120)
Progressive contextualization: Methods for research in human ecology (1983) (115)
Expansion and Warfare among Swidden Agriculturalists1 (1961) (101)
Event Ecology, Causal Historical Analysis, and Human–Environment Research (2009) (98)
Environment and Cultural Behavior: Ecological Studies in Cultural Anthropology (1969) (70)
Warfare in Ecological Perspective (1974) (70)
Man, Culture and Animals: The Role of Animals in Human Ecological Adjustments (1966) (61)
Ecology, Evolution, and the Search for Cultural Origins: The Question of Islamic Pig Prohibition [and Comments and Reply] (1978) (58)
War in Ecological Perspective (1979) (55)
Causal Explanation of Indonesian Forest Fires: Concepts, Applications, and Research Priorities (2006) (51)
PHASES OF THE PROCESS OF WAR AND PEACE AMONG THE MARINGS OF NEW GUINEA1 (1971) (46)
Explaining Human Actions and Environmental Changes (2009) (43)
Man, culture, and animals (1965) (40)
Methods and explanations in the study of human actions and their environmental effects. CIFOR/WWF Special Publication. (1996) (36)
Holism and individualism in ecological anthropology (1986) (35)
Slash and burn and fires in Indonesia: A comment (2006) (33)
Explaining Why Marings Fought (1989) (30)
Concepts of Process in Social Science Explanations (1991) (29)
Actions, Variations, And Change (1990) (29)
Maoris and Muskets in New Zealand: Disruption of a War System (1970) (28)
Failures of Explanation in Darwinian Ecological Anthropology: Part II (1995) (28)
Forest Clearing and Pepper Farming by Bugis Migrants in East Kalimantan: Antecedents and Impact (1985) (28)
EXPLOITATION IN SOUTHEAST ASIA (1989) (25)
DIVISION OF ANTHROPOLOGY: A RE‐EXAMINATION OF NORTHWEST COAST ECONOMIC SYSTEMS* (1961) (23)
CHAPTER XIV – Problems in the Identification of Environmental Problems (1977) (21)
The impact of development on interactions between people and forests in East Kalimantan: A comparison of two areas of Kenyah dayak settlement (1984) (21)
Beyond slash‐and‐burn: The roles of human activities, altered hydrology and fuels in peat fires in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia (2020) (19)
Explaining what people eat: A review article (1987) (17)
Bugis settlers in East Kalimantan’s Kutai National Park: their past and present and some possibilities for their future (1996) (15)
Unobtrusive Measures: Nonreactive Research in the Social Sciences. Eugene J. Webb, Donald T. Campbell, Richard D. Schwartz, and Lee Sechrest (1968) (15)
The Study of the Causes of War, with Special Reference to Head-Hunting Raids in Borneo (1969) (15)
Polynesian Cultural Distributions in New Perspective (1959) (14)
Eric Alden Smith and Bruce Winterhalder, eds., Evolutionary Ecology and Human Behavior. Aldine de Gruyter, New York, 1992. Pp. xv, 470, tables, boxes, figures, bibliography, author index, subject index. $59.95 (cloth), $29.95 (paper (1995) (13)
Dayaks and Forests of Interior Borneo (1988) (13)
War in Ecological Perspective: "Persistence, Change, And Adaptive Processes In Three Oceanian Societies" (2012) (12)
Managing forests and improving the livelihoods of forest-dependent people: reflections on CIFOR’s social science research in relation to its mandate for generalisable strategic research (1997) (10)
Doing and Knowing: Questions about Studies of Local Knowledge (2019) (10)
On the “New Ecology” Paradigm (1976) (10)
Anthropological perspectives on tropical deforestation? A review article (1998) (9)
Peoples and cultures of the Pacific : an anthropological reader (1968) (9)
On the Anthropological Study of Economies (1967) (8)
Cultural Materialism: Food for Thought or Bum Steer? [and Comments and Replies] (1984) (8)
Pragmatic Methods and Causal-History Explanations (2013) (7)
Explaining Indonesian Forest Fires: Both Ends of the Firestick (2010) (7)
On the Nutritional Value of Cannibalism (1970) (6)
STRUCTURAL VARIABILITY IN THE BISMARCK MOUNTAIN CULTURES OF NEW GUINEA: A PRELIMINARY REPORT. (1964) (6)
War and Coping (1979) (5)
Mechanisms and Causal Histories: Explanation-Oriented Research in Human Ecology (2020) (5)
Ecosystems and Human Actions (1993) (5)
Dayaks and Forest of Interior Borneo in Special Issue on Borneo. (1988) (4)
Functional Analysis and its Aims (1969) (4)
Ethnology: Bloodshed and Vengeance in the Papuan Mountains: The Generation of Conflict in Tauade Society. C. R. Hallpike. (1979) (4)
Maori Prisoners and Slaves in the Nineteenth Century (1961) (3)
Anthropology and the Study of War (1961) (3)
Current Issues in Social Science Explanation An Introduction (1991) (3)
Causal Explanation for Environmental Anthropologists (2013) (3)
Leslie E. Sponsel: Spiritual Ecology, A Quiet Revolution (2014) (3)
Reply to Harris (1987) (2)
Event Ecology (2018) (2)
Why estimates of the peat burned in fires in Sumatra and Kalimantan are unreliable and why it matters (2021) (2)
People and Forests in East Kalimantanl (2007) (2)
97. Maori Women and Maori Cannibalism (1960) (1)
Rejoinder to Lansing and de Vet (2012) (1)
Questions about Culture-related Considerations in Research on Cognition and Agro-Ecological Change: Illustrations from Studies of Agricultural Pests Management in Java (2014) (1)
On Origins and "Coping" Ecology (1979) (1)
Analysing Causal Factors of Peatland Wildfires: A Knowledge-based Approach (2018) (1)
242. Love in Polynesian Atolls (1961) (1)
Ecological Anthropology Text (1977) (0)
Book reviews (1990) (0)
Malnutrition , Behavior , and Social Organization (2017) (0)
Abstract No: A-119 QUANTIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF PEAT FIRES AND RELATED FIRE-EMISSION FACTORS FROM TROPICAL PEATLANDS (2017) (0)
Book reviews (1977) (0)
Alternative Scientific Explanations (1995) (0)
War as a Process (1976) (0)
OTHER: Atoll Environment and Ecology. Herold J. Wiens (1963) (0)
ERRATA: Phases of theProcess ofWar andPeace among theMarings ofNewGuinea (1972) (0)
WARFARE IN ECOLOGICAL .*4075 PERSPECTIVE (2016) (0)
Against Political Ecology 1 (2000) (0)
Book reviews (1991) (0)
Erratum to: Against Spiritual Ecology: Reply to Sponsel’s Comments (2014) (0)
State Opens Its ' College Series ' for Career Positions (2010) (0)
Book reviews (1979) (0)
Rejoinder to Lansing and de Vet (2012) (0)
Erratum to: Against Spiritual Ecology: Reply to Sponsel’s Comments (2014) (0)
Against Spiritual Ecology: Reply to Sponsel’s Comments (2014) (0)
Interview of Andrew Vayda (2010) (0)
Anthropology and Environment Section: Forest-Fire Research in Indonesia (2000) (0)
Cultural Values and Tropical Ecology in Southeast Asia, Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia no. 27, Traditional Agriculture in Southeast Asia: A Human Ecology Perspective and Western Impressions of Nature and Landscape in Southeast Asia (1989) (0)
Social Sciences and the Environment. Morris E. Garnsey and James R. Hibbs, eds (1969) (0)
UNIT 2 APPLICATION OF CONCEPT OF ECOSYSTEM IN ANTHROPOLOGY (2017) (0)
Field Studies of Nutrition and Behavior (1969) (0)
Field studies of nutrition and behavior, AAAS Symposium, 27 December 1969, Boston. (1969) (0)
Against Spiritual Ecology: Reply to Sponsel’s Comments (2014) (0)
Author response (2011) (0)
The Military and the Problem of Legitimacy.@@@War in Ecological Perspective. (1977) (0)
Maoris and Muskets (1976) (0)
Leslie E. Sponsel: Spiritual Ecology, A Quiet Revolution (2014) (0)

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