Anthropology of Health and the Environment

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We will consider how socioecological conditions such as climate change, urban expansion, food production, resources extraction, and human pollution become experienced and embodied by diverse people in varying societal contexts. Throughout the course students will explore how people shape environmental systems and, in so doing, create new vulnerabilities, inequities, and precarities that are unevenly experienced and accumulated in the body. Different theories, literatures, and applied case studies from around the world will ground our approach.