从亚里斯多德时代到当代,人们对人地关系的认识,从"决定论"到"可能论"、"适应论"、"生态论"以及"和谐论",不断深化。但这些思想都各执一辞,没能揭示人地关系的本质。本文认为,应从文化人类学的角度研究人地关系,并注意历史分析。文化的发展水平决定着人对环境的影响程度;环境对人的影响则主要通过对生产力的影响,进而影响着人类社会的上层建筑。

From Aristotle's age to today, human understanding of "Man-Environment Relationship" is costantly deepening--from "determinism" to "possibilism", "adap-labilism"、"ecologism" and "harmonism", while these ideas were rather one-sided and couldn't reveal the essence of "Man-Environment relationship". This paper suggests that the relationship should be studied from the viewpoints of cultural anthropology and history. The levels of development determine man's impact on environment;and the latter affects human beings through it's impact on product-ive forces, and, thus, on the superstructure of human society.