ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY 280 - Environment and Culture:Cultural EcologyThe

Institution:

Hobart William Smith Colleges

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subject of ecological studies in cultural anthropology is the study of the interaction between human populations and their environments. These populations-hunters, gatherers, farmers, herders, and city dwellers-are examined in diverse habitats or settings: tropical forests, flooded rice plains, highland pastures, deserts, and cities. Attention is focused on ecological concepts and human adaptations and implications of these for present dilemmas in our own troubled environments. What lessons are there to be learned about resource management from "primitive" people (Maia le, offered alternate year

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

WWW.HWS.EDU

Phone Number:

(315) 781-3000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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