Pastoralism - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Survival of the fittest Pastoralism and climate change in East Africa Climate change is having a destructive impact on many groups around the world. Pastoralists in East Africa have been adapting to climate variability for millennia and their adaptability ought to enable them to cope with this growing challenge. This paper explains the policies required to enable sustainable and productive pastoralist communities to cope with the impact of climate change and generate sustainable livelihoo...

Archaeology correct answers understanding how people did things and why they did things (how these people moved and used the landscape) Social Complexity correct answers understanding one way isn't the best way, each group has its own methods and does not mean one way is simpler than another, just bc it is different does not mean it is lesser Foragers correct answers uses natural resources for sustenance, band level societies, will surpass carrying capacity of original environment so stay...

Archaeology correct answers Study of early cultures and life ways through material remains Social Complexity correct answers Domains and integration Social and political organization Subsistence strategies and economic activities Religious beliefs Foragers correct answers Band level societies (<100) Egalitarian- equal access to resources Uses natural resources for subsistence Authority comes from experience/age and wisdom Power correct answers Can inflict negative sanctions/pun...

Anthro Final: WVU Sahady with Verified Solutions historic archaeology archaeology with written documents prehistoric archaeology archaeology before written documents overall goal of archaeology to understand and reconstruct history and past cultures culture Tool that helps us know how to behave appropriately in varying situations & helps us to interpret meaning cultural relavitism is the idea that a person's beliefs, values, and practices should be understood based on that p...

Worlds Together, Worlds Apart-A History of the World from the Beginnings of Humankind to the Present 6E Jeremy Adelman, Elizabeth Pollard & Robert Tignor - Complete Elaborated and Latest Test Bank. ALL Chapters 1-11 Included and updated for 2023 #Worlds #Together #Worlds #Apart #History #Beginnings #Humankind #Present #6Ed #Jeremy #Adelman #Pollard #Tignor #TestBank #elaborated #Testbank COMPLETE - Elaborated Test Bank for Worlds Together, Worlds Apart-A History of the World ...

________ views linguistic practices as symbolic capital that people, if trained properly, can convert into economic and social capital - Bordieau _________ believed that ethnic boundaries are most stable and enduring when groups occupy different ecological niches - Barth _________ believed that human brain contains limited set of rules for organizing language - Chomsky _________ irrigate their fields with canals from rivers, streams, springs, and ponds. They have also created a s...

air pollution correct answers presence of unwanted substances in air noise pollution correct answers presence of unwanted noise Water pollution correct answers presence of unwanted substance in water Point Source correct answers pollution that can be traced to specific source Non-point Source correct answers source of pollution is many or specific, but can't be traced Sustainable Yield correct answers amount of resources that can be removed/harvested w/o compromising ecosystem/in...

Acculturation - exchange of cultural features that results when groups have continuous firsthand contact Parts of culture changes, but each group remains distinct Adaptive Strategies - means of making a living; productive system includes foraging, horticulture, agriculture, pastoralism, and industrialism Assimilation - wholesale adoption of (usually dominate) culture, includes language, custom, dress Less powerful group is going to assimilate traits of more powerful culture Attributes of ...

Cultural Anthropology - The truth is that cultural anthropology is the Description, interpretation, and analysis of similarities and differences in human cultures The four subfields of Cultural anthropology - Archaeology, Linguistic, Social/ cultural, biological /physical What does unilinear cultural evolution support? - cultural superiority, enlightened, advanced, civilized or intelligent definition of culture - the total way of life of a group of people that is learned, adapted, shared ,...

AP Environmental Science Vocabulary 100% Correct air pollution presence of unwanted substances in air noise pollution presence of unwanted noise Water pollution presence of unwanted substance in water Point Source pollution that can be traced to specific source Non-point Source source of pollution is many or specific, but can't be traced Sustainable Yield amount of resources that can be removed/harvested w/o compromising ecosystem/initial natural capital sustainable society society whose ...