Anthropology 378 - Nature,Culture,and Environmentalism

Institution:

Reed College

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Description:

Full course for one semester. The course examines earlier and contemporary theoretical perspectives on the relationships between sociocultural systems, human biology, and biophysical environments. Topics include the nature-culture opposition and its non-Western counterparts, the constraints of nondiscursive nature on culture, the discursive construction of nature, primitivism, sociobiology, science studies, the "posthuman terrain," Western environmentalism as a cultural system, ecofeminism, premodern subsistence systems, the ecological noble savage, environmental religions, and Third- and Fourth-World peoples' relations with global and local environmental movements. Prerequisite: Anthropology 211. Conference. Not offered 2009-1

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.reed.edu

Phone Number:

(503) 771-1112

Regional Accreditation:

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

Calendar System:

Semester

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