Andrew P. Vayda

ANDREW P. VAYDA is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Ecology at Rutgers University. Formerly a professor at Columbia University, he has taught also at the University of Indonesia and other Indonesian universities and at the University of British Columbia. He has directed and participated in numerous research projects on people’s interactions with forests in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea and has published some hundred articles and several books. For much of his career, he has specialized in methodology and explanation at the interface between social and ecological science. The journal, Human Ecology, was founded by him, and he was its editor for five years. A festschrift in his honor, Against the Grain: The Vayda Tradition in Human Ecology and Ecological Anthropology, with a concluding chapter by him on “Causal Explanation as a Research Goal,” was published in 2008 by AltaMira Press.

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