ANTH 370: Environment and Culture
ANTH 370-001: Environment and Culture
(Fall 2016)
12:00 PM to 01:15 PM TR
Krug Hall 19
Section Information for Fall 2016
The environment is a key theme throughout the contemporary world, with newspapers reporting on a daily basis about environmental issues from endangered species to climate change. But what do people mean by “environment”? The concept in fact looks different across cultures, involving varying ways in which people think and act toward the environment. That is because culture shapes the environment, and the environment shapes culture. Through using theoretical works and ethnographic literature and films, this course aims to explore the ways in which people’s lives are shaped by different cultural, political, and ecological contexts and how anthropological theories provide tools for understanding complex human-environment relations.
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Credits: 3
This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.
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