Julian Steward and the view of ecology-research in cultural anthropology

Abstract

J. Steward rose as one of the disciples of the American Anthropological school on the study of culture and human behavior and its interpretation in the mid-forties of the last century after a series of studies in archeology and anthropology, has been allocated the fifth and sixth decade toward anthropological studies through orientation cultural ecology, which means the adaptation of humans to the environment, try the research to look to know the biography of academic and scientific career and achievements of knowledge of Professor (Steward), as the goal, while moving the importance about the discussion and the statement of the most important ideas and concepts presented in the studies and their ability to analyze human behavior as filled cultural anthropology basis, and in his discussion to the evolutionary school classic concept of linear evolution stages by the pioneers of this school, as well as his discussion to the theoretical orientations given by the follow geographical or environmental determine in identifying and formulating taxable environmental determinants of human behavior, and the extent of the contribution of the cultural ecology widening the search rather than specified in the specific scenarios.