文化人类学的一门分支学科:生态人类学

Ethologic anthropology: A branch of cultural anthropology

本文简要地探讨了文化人类学的一门分支学科———生态人类学的产生和发展过程。虽然它的思想起源可以追溯到古希腊思想家的环境决定论 ,但是作为一门学科 ,其产生和发展则与美国文化人类学息息相关。生态人类学从环境决定论到侧重文化的民族生态学的转变 。

This article makes a brief discussion on the process of the coming into being and development of ethologic anthropology, a branch discipline of cultural anthropology. Although the origin of thinking of ethological anthropology can be traced back to the environmental determinism of the ancient Greek thinkers, but as a discipline its coming into being has been closely bound up with the development of American anthropology. The ethological anthropology's transformation from environments's determinationtheory to the etho-ethnology stressing cultures' functions is virtually a vivid history of the development of American anthropology.