Anthropology Exam 4 ISU Questions With Correct Answers
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Anthropology Exam 4 ISU Questions With
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How has nature been defined in traditional Western philosophy? - answer-environment
-non human
-acted upon
-threat to culture
How has culture been defined in traditional Western philosophy? - answer-society
-human created
-agent/transfo...
EXAM STUDY MATERIALS July 26, 2024 9:30 AM Anthropology Exam 4 ISU Questions With Correct Answers How has nature been defined in traditional Western philosophy? - answer✔✔-environm ent -non human -acted upon -threat to culture How has culture been defined in traditional Western philosophy? - answer✔✔-society -human created -agent/transformation of nature -achieved against nature What are the implications of the nature/culture dich otomy for thinking about humans' interactions with the environment as well as our understandings of culture? - answer✔✔-humans place within; not the outside of ecosystems -dynamic interactions among humans,non humans, and ecosystems -role of nature/cultur e in colonial narratives According to Meggers, what role did the environment play in determining cultural complexity in Amazonia? - answer✔✔-Nature limiting factor -advanced culture is impossible -indigenous people unable to overcome Did Levi -Strauss see the nature/culture divide as being a universal mental framework? - answer✔✔Yes, it was universal What is "Raw and Cooked" - answer✔✔The idea that signs are set up to be against each other in order to understand them. They refer to each other, and not thin gs in the real world. -idea that something is cooked because it's not raw, and something is raw because it's not cooked --helps establish cultural identity. Crude O Cotte -carrots EXAM STUDY MATERIALS July 26, 2024 9:30 AM What are the three parts to the universal dichotomy? - answer✔✔Cooked=cultur e Raw=nature Rotten=decomposed How and why does Descola's work depart from the nature/culture divide? - answer✔✔View of Nature -modern separation View of Society -issues of relativism, ways of seeing nature How does his work with the Achuar contest the nature/culture divide? - answer✔✔Appear socially isolated -houses aren't clustered How does Haraway's work on companion animals contest the nature/culture divide? - answer✔✔Men see hunting as a way of interactin g with non -humans How does the entanglement of nature and culture in the Everglades contest the nature/culture divide? - answer✔✔The land is getting destroyed and people are getting displaced In his ecology of others, what does Descola believe to be univer sal about humans' interactions with the environment? What aspects are subjective? - answer✔✔Worlding -subjective configurations of human/non -human What is political ecology? How does it approach the links between nature and culture? - answer✔✔The study of the relationship between political, economic, and social factors with environmental issues and changes How do political inequalities structure access to natural resources? - answer✔✔Structuring responses to environmental problems and issues. -access to n atural resources How does access(or lack there of) to natural resources reinforce political inequalities? How do we see this dynamic in Hovorka's work on Botswana? - answer✔✔-Structuring responses to environmental problems and issues. - Reconstructed agri culture: industrial and urban. - Reworking gender relations - Gender, rural and urban migration.
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