Abstract：Though studies on Cultural Ecology have been rapidly developed and widely applied in cultural anthropology, cultural sociology, landscape ecology and cultural geography in the last half century, the systemic theory of cultural ecology has not been formed by now. All those theories, which construct the main theories of cultural ecology, are simpler than the specialty sound system.
The paper reviews the characteristics of above theories and their development. The author considers that the culture-ecology adaptation theory (created by Julian.H.Steward in 1955) is the basis of modern Cultural Ecology. Chinese scholars on this theory have made much demonstration. In the recent 20 years, landscape ecology has paid more attention to cultural signification to landscapes' reform and gives some relation principles of culture and landscape that benefit to cultural ecology. Geography researchers regard human being sphere as one of the earth first systems and advance the theories below. The relation between hum an being and the earth has always been the central question in geography, but it is neither systemic nor fitting to the whole of cultural ecology with its level and emphases.
In order to strengthen the independence of cultural ecology and to stand out the advantages of cultural geography, the author integrates all these theories and constructs a new theory system of modern cultural ecology. In this system, cultural landscape, cultural community, cultural ecology system, cultural advance and cultural region are considered its important conceptions. Cultural ecology system is determined to be the object of the study of cultural ecology. As main bodies of the systemic theory, system structure theory, ecology function theory and landscape influence theory are discussed particularly.
江金波. 论文化生态学的理论发展与新构架[J]. 人文地理, 2005, 20(4): 119-124.
JIANG Jin-bo. DISCUSSION ON THE THEORY FRAMEWORK OF CULTURAL ECOLOGY. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 2005, 20(4): 119-124.
