ENVIRONMENTAL ANTHROPOLOGY

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An elective for anthropology majors and minors. Environmental anthropology provides an introduction to human / environmental interactions from diverse anthropological perspectives, covering cultural ecology, ecological anthropology, ethnoscience, and political ecology. This course explores human adaptability, integrating social and biological approaches, cultural and political ecology, ecological politics and resistance in struggles over the definition, organization, and control of the natural environment, and contemporary issues of global environmental change, population and environment, "common property" resources, indigenous peoples’ environmental sciences and management regimes of resources, and the power relations affecting local and global human use of the environment. Lecture and discussion. Prerequisite: ANTH 1302.