Studying the environmental beliefs, knowledge, and practices of what type of society has always been part of anthropology? correct answers small-scale societies
What is "the rule of indigenous environments?" correct answers where there are indigenous people with a homeland there are still biolog...
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Studying the environmental beliefs, knowledge, and practices of what type of society has always
been part of anthropology? correct answers small-scale societies
What is "the rule of indigenous environments?" correct answers where there are indigenous
people with a homeland there are still biologically rich environments
Worldwide environmental challenges have brought what to environmental anthropology? correct
answers urgency
What type of methods did Patricia K. Townsend use in her work? correct answers ethnographic
What are the goals of World Parks Congress? correct answers environmental protection,
conservation, and sustainable development
What does the clash between conservationists and indigenous groups highlight? correct answers
the different approaches cultures have to nature
What is the focus of environmental anthropology? correct answers to highlight the different
approaches cultures have to nature
Why do some societies apparently have sustainable relations with the natural world while others
seem to be more destructive? correct answers because of the varying views of nature
Ecological anthropology correct answers the specific vein within environmental anthropology
that studies directly the relationship between humans and natural ecosystems.
What links culture and ecology? correct answers ecological anthropology
Environmental determinism correct answers attempts to explain the cultural characteristics of a
group of people as a consequence of specific ecological conditions or limitations.
What explores the extent to which ecologies are malleable and the extent to which people must
adapt to the demands of their intermediate environment? correct answers Environmental
determinism
Critics of environmental determinism argue what? correct answers that ecosystems impact
culture but that humans also shape their ecosystems
Environmental possibilism correct answers the environment sets certain constraints or
limitations, but culture is otherwise determined by social conditions.
Technology, attitude, habits and values influence ________________ and it also bring about a
change in the __________________. correct answers human action, physical environment
, Culture ecology transformed into what? correct answers ecological anthropology
What prompted the rise of interest in ecological anthropology in the 70s? correct answers the
concern that population growth would outrun the gas supply, concern with industrial wastes, and
the dangers of pesticides
Who was the student of Kroeber? correct answers Julian Steward
Julian steward is known for what concept? correct answers culture core
Ethnographic correct answers focus on specific cultures and specific aspects of culture (food
ways) in specific environments
Multi-linear evolution correct answers Emphasized ecological factors as an important but not an
exclusive factor in determining culture change
What reintroduced the concept of cultural evolution in anthropology? correct answers multi-
linear evolution
Adaption is a ___________ not an outcome. correct answers process
Ethnoecology correct answers study of the effect culture has on peoples perception of the
environment
Minority doesn't refer to size but to _________. correct answers power
Netting correct answers Focused on adaptation as a process of environmental management in
which people use skill and experience in creative ways
What introduced the idea of sustainability, not only to the physical environment but also to
broader economic systems? correct answers netting
Sustainability correct answers using natural and human resources in a way that does not
jeopardize the opportunities of future generation
What are the 2 important functions of mental maps of reality? correct answers classify reality,
and assign meanings to what is classified
Political Ecology correct answers Focuses on the linkages between political-economic power,
social inequality, and ecological destruction
Historical Ecology correct answers Similar to environmental history, dialectical relationship
between humans and the altered "landscape"
Evolutionary ecology correct answers is a field within both ecology and evolution that examines
how interactions between and within species evolve.
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