ABSTRACT Historical ecology is a research program that in earnest has emerged within anthropology since the turn of the millennium. This essay offers a short outline of historical ecology and, on the basis of a review of four volumes published over the last decade, discusses several key issues in the historical ecological analyses of socio-environmental relations. It is argued that historical ecology (1) emerged as a concept in different, but related, discursive contexts, (2) coalesced in North American anthropology and anthropological archaeology, and (3) subsequently cross-fertilized and diversified in new academic milieus successfully addressing previously unconsidered research questions in novel ways.

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历史生态时代的到来

摘要历史生态学是一项研究计划，自千年之交以来，它已在人类学领域内出现。本文简要介绍了历史生态学，并在回顾了过去十年出版的四卷书的基础上，讨论了对社会与环境关系进行历史生态学分析的几个关键问题。有人认为，历史生态学（1）在不同但相关的话语环境中作为一个概念出现，（2）在北美人类学和人类学考古学中合并，（3）随后在新的学术环境中成功地交叉应用和多样化以前没有考虑过的新颖研究问题。