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Book reviews The Question of the Commons: The Culture and Ecology of Comm unal Re- sources, edited by Bonnie M. McCay and James M. Acheson. Tucson, Arizona: The University of Arizona Press, 1987, 439 pages. Conner Bailey and Mike Skaldany Conner Bailey is Associate Professor of Rural Sociology at Auburn University. Mike Skladany is a doctoral student in Sociology at Michigan State University. Both have extensive field experience in Southeast Asia with fisheries and other common property natural resource systems. This edited volume contains seventeen original Commons present historical and ethnographic evi- essays on common property natural resources. dence to challenge the Hardinista view that humans Most of the authors and both of the editors are are little more than selfish individuals. In fact, as anthropologists who approach their topics through this volume and other recent contributions in the the perspective of human ecology. In preparing this field show, there are numerous examples where volume, the editors organized two separate sym- the supposed conflict between individual & social benefits does not exist.2 In a wide variety of ecolog- posia at professional meetings. Papers from these ical and cultural settings, user groups have estab- meetings, plus several other solicited papers, pro- lished http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Agriculture and Human Values Springer Journals

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Springer Journals
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Philosophy; Ethics; Agricultural Economics; Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Science; History, general; Evolutionary Biology
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0889-048X
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1572-8366
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10.1007/BF01530440
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The Question of the Commons: The Culture and Ecology of Comm unal Re- sources, edited by Bonnie M. McCay and James M. Acheson. Tucson, Arizona: The University of Arizona Press, 1987, 439 pages. Conner Bailey and Mike Skaldany Conner Bailey is Associate Professor of Rural Sociology at Auburn University. Mike Skladany is a doctoral student in Sociology at Michigan State University. Both have extensive field experience in Southeast Asia with fisheries and other common property natural resource systems. This edited volume contains seventeen original Commons present historical and ethnographic evi- essays on common property natural resources. dence to challenge the Hardinista view that humans Most of the authors and both of the editors are are little more than selfish individuals. In fact, as anthropologists who approach their topics through this volume and other recent contributions in the the perspective of human ecology. In preparing this field show, there are numerous examples where volume, the editors organized two separate sym- the supposed conflict between individual & social benefits does not exist.2 In a wide variety of ecolog- posia at professional meetings. Papers from these ical and cultural settings, user groups have estab- meetings, plus several other solicited papers, pro- lished

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