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Julian Steward & the Great Basin Ronald Koury He traces the roots ofJulian Steward and the Great Basin is a critical assessment of Steward's work, the factors that influenced him, and his deep effect on American anthropology. Steward (1902 1972) was one of the foremost American exponents of cultural ecology, the idea that societies evolve in adaptation to their human and natural environments. He was also central in shaping basic anthropological constructs such as "hunter gatherer" and "adaptation." But his fieldwork