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Who Used Possibilism Against Environmental Determinism in Ecology?
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- Marshall Sahlins introduced possibilism into cultural ecology.
- He offered it as an alternative to the dominant environmental determinism.
- Environmental determinism claimed environment directly causes cultural traits.
- Possibilism emphasizes human agency and social factors.
- Sahlins built on ideas from Strabo (64 BC).
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