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HUMAN ECOLOGY An Interdisciplinary Journal Vol. 25, No. 1 March 1997 CONTENTS Important Announcement The Politics of Managing the Maine Lobster Industry: 1860 to the Present James M. Acheson Participatory Management, Popular Knowledge, and Community Empowerment: The Case of Sea Urchin Harvesting in the Vieux-Fort Area of St. Lucia Gary Warner Endangered Forest, Endangered People: Environmentalist Representations of Indigenous Knowledge J. Peter Brosius The Economic Importance of Communal Net Hunting Among the BaAka of the Central African Republic Andrew J. Noss The Value of Forests to World Food Security David Pimentel, Michael McNair, Louise Buck, Marcia Pimentel, and Jeremy Kamil Natural Resource Management, Paradigm Shifts, and the Decentralization Reform in Mali Tor A. Benjaminsen BOOK REVIEWS ANNOUNCEMENT HUMAN ECOLOGY An Interdisciplinary Journal Vol. 25, No. 2 June 1997 CONTENTS Aboriginal Resource Utilization and Fire Management Practice in Western Arnhem Land, Monsoonal Northern Australia: Notes for Prehistory, Lessons for the Future Jeremy Russell-Smith, Diane Lucas, Minnie Gapindi, Billy Gunbunuka, Nipper Kapirigi, George Namingum, Kate Lucas, Pina Giuliani, and George Chaloupka Transmission of Indigenous Knowledge and Bush Skills Among the Western James Bay Cree Women of Subarctic Canada Kayo Ohmagari and Fikret Berkes “Predatory Sedentism”: Intimidation and Intensification in the Nigerian Savanna Glenn Davis Stone Hunting Primates and Managing Forests: The Case of Iban Forest Farmers in Indonesian Borneo Reed L. Wadley, Carol J. Pierce Colfer, and Ian G. Hood A Role for Biology in the Cultural Ecology of Ladakh Andrea S. Wiley Patchwork, Pastoralists, and Perception: Dune Sand as a Valued Resource Among Herders of Inner Mongolia Dee Mack Williams Market Incorporation, Agricultural Change, and Sustainability Among the Machiguenga Indians of the Peruvian Amazon Joseph Henrich BRIEF COMMUNICATION Ethnobotany of Atlantic Forest Coastal Communities: II. Diversity of Plant Uses at Sepetiba Bay (SE Brazil) Gisela M. Figueiredo, Hermoégenes F. Leitao-Filho, and Alpina Begossi BOOK REVIEWS HUMAN ECOLOGY An Interdisciplinary Journal Vol. 25, No. 3 September 1997 CONTENTS Special Issue: Islands and Laboratories Guest Editors: Ben Fitzhugh and Terry Hunt Introduction: Islands as Laboratories: Archaeological Research in Comparative Perspective Ben Fitzhugh and Terry L. Hunt Biogeographical Archaeology in the Eastern North American Arctic William W. Fitzhugh The Postponed Agenda: Archaeology and Human Biogeography in the Twenty-First Century John Edward Terrell Tropical Islands as Paleoecological Laboratories: Gauging the Consequences of Human Arrival David A. Burney The Western Aleutians: Cultural Isolation and Environmental Change Debra G. Corbett, Christine Lefevre, and Douglas Siegel-Causey Does It Matter that Madagascar is an Island? Robert E. Dewar Raiding the Landscape: Human Impact in the Scandinavian North Atlantic Thomas Amorosi, Paul Buckland, Andrew Dugmore, Jon H. Ingimundarson, and Thomas H. McGovern HUMAN ECOLOGY An Interdisciplinary Journal Vol. 25, No. 4 December 1997 CONTENTS Herding Strategies of the Datoga Pastoralists of Tanzania: Is Household Labor a Limiting Factor Daniela F. Sieff Tapirs, Tractors, and Tapes: The Changing Economy and Ecology of the Xavante Indians of Central Brazil Ricardo V. Santos, Nancy M. Flowers, Carlos E. A. Coimbra, Jr., and Silvia A. Gugelmin Living on the Margins: Livelihood Strategies of Bedouin Herd-Owners in the Northern Negev, Israel Michael Ginguld, Avi Perevolotsky, and Eugene D. Ungar Environmentally-Displaced Peoples and the Cascade Effect: Lessons from Tanzania Susan Charnley op