Ecological Anthropology

The course deals with human relationship to biophysical environment and other species, their use and social meanings. It addresses the processes by which communities recognize, transform, and otherwise incorporate the environment into their natural and cultural heritage (identities).
Historical and cross-cultural comparisons of ecological adaptations complement the society- and culture-oriented lens of 20th-century social and cultural anthropology, while the discipline eschews new determinisms.
Examples from climatology, geology, botany, zoology, geography, archeology, demography, epidemiology, gastronomy, medicine, technology, management, etc. are used to discuss the interaction between anthropocentric nature and culture.
We substantiate the theoretical models with ethnographic examples and evaluate them.

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