Culture, Adaptation and Environment
NRE 256 / Anthrcul 256 / Environ 256
Credits: 3

This course explores anthropological approaches to human relationships with their environments and resources. We will examine diverse conceptions of culture and nature, an time and space, and the impacts that contemporary global forces are having on indigenous societies and their ecosystems. We will be particularly interested in the relative strengths and weaknesses of materialistic and cultural analyses of human-environment relationships, and models that attempt to combine them.