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Nov 21, 2024
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ARCHIVED 2021-2022 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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ANTH 305 - Cultural Ecology4.00 credit hours
(Same as: ENVI 305 .) Examines human engagements with the physical environment from early homo sapiens to the present. Topics include major adaptive strategies (foraging, horticulture, intensive agriculture, pastoralism and industrialism) and their social correlates and environmental consequences. Factors that lead to collapse of complex societies in the archaeological past. Colonial engagements and resulting resource use changes. Traditional ecological knowledge. Contemporary resource conflicts between small-scale societies, states and corporate interests.
Prerequisite(s): One of ANTH 145 , ANTH 165 or ENVI 120 .
Cardinal Directions Designation(s): Social Sciences, Global Understanding.
iCon(s): Innovating the World, Sustaining Our World.
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