A Review, Comparison, and Evaluation of Some State & Local Data Handbooks

Bureau of the Census, 1972 Census of Governments
Bureau of the Census, Local Government Finances in Selected Metropolitan Areas and Large Counties: 1974–75
Bureau of the Census, City Government Finances in 1974–75
International City Management Association, The Municipal Year-book, 1977
Paul Albright, ed., The Book of the States, 1976–77     

IV. LITERATURE REVIEW

Literature reviewed in this article: Robert Levine, Public Planning Karen Davis, National Health Insurance: Benefits, Costs, and Consequences Martha Derthick, Uncontrollable Spendinq for Social Services Grants Sar A. Levitan and Joyce K. Zickler, The Quest for a Federal Manpower Partnership Kettil Brun, Lynn Pan, and Ingemar Rexed, The Gentlemen's Club: International Control of Drugs and Alcohol Richard L. Rachin and Eugene H. Czajkoski, Drug Abuse Control Timothy H. Hannan, The Economics of Methadone Maintenance Henry J. Aaron, Who Pays the Property-Tax: A New View George F. Break and Joseph A. Pechman, Federal Tax Reform, the Impossible Dream? Robert K. Yin and Douglas Yates, Street-Level Governments: Assessing Decentralization and Urban Services David J. O'Brien, Neighborhood Organization and Interest Group Processes James Q. Wilson, Thinking about Crime W. Henry Lambright, Governinq Science and Technoloqy James L. Sundquist, Dispersing Population: What America Can Learn from Europe     

SYMPOSIUM ON INTRODUCTORY TEXTBOOKS ON PUBLIC POLICY ANALYSIS

WORLD POLICAL ECONOMY
Robert Gilpin, U.S. Power and the Multinational Corporation
Zuhayr Mikdashi, The International Politics of Natural Resources
Mason Willrich, Energy and World Politics
RECENT RELEVANT LITERATURE
J. Clarence Davies III and Barbara S. Davies, The Politics of Pollution
POLICY STUDIES PAPERS FROM NON-POLITICAL SCIENCE CONVENTIONS
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF POLICY STUDIES BOOKS     

Beyond Boundaries: Nature,Culture and a Holistic Approach to Domestication in the Levant

The main objective of this paper is to suggest an alternative approach for the investigation of domestication in the Levant. First, basic data regarding domestication in the Levant are presented. Then the various traditional approaches towards domestication in the prehistoric Levant, labeled (1) environmental, (2) social and anthropological, and (3) cognitive, are briefly reviewed. This discussion forms the basis for a proposal of a “holistic approach,” in which domestication is regarded as a long-term, multidimensional and multirelational phenomenon, including many elements—such as plants, animals, humans, material culture and ancestors—with increasing human manipulation of these various constituents. After a presentation of the theoretical framework, a growth metaphor is used to reconstruct the process of domestication (ca. 20,000–6500 B.P.) as a number of phases: (1) germination in the Kebaran; (2) development in the Early Natufian; (3) retreat/dormancy in the Late/Final Natufian; (4) growth in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A; (5) florescence in the Early- and Middle Pre-Pottery Neolithic B: (6) further development in the Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic B; (7) dispersal in the Final Pre-Pottery Neolithic B and the Pottery Neolithic. In each of these phases, relations between the various elements are dealt with, special attention being paid to symbolical relations, as evidenced by “art” and ritual.