It derives from the work of Franz Boas and has branched out to cover a number of aspects of human society, in particular the distribution of wealth and power in a society, and how that affects such behaviour as hoarding or gifting (e.g. the tradition of the potlatch on the Northest North American coast).
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This focus on environmental adaptation is based on the cultural ecology and multilinear evolution ideas of anthropologists such as Julian Steward.
In the following years he taught anthropology at Rogue Community College in Oregon, conducted participant research on a traditional peasant farm in the Emmental, Switzerland, and among vignerons in the Charante-Maritime, France and taught cultural ecology at the University of Berne, Switzerland (1979–80).