ANT 252 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Environmental Anthropology, Big Umbrella, Ecological Anthropology
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The study of the relationship between people and environment. Implies that the physical environment affects and causes human social development. Everywhere people have lived they have had an impact on the land and environment, even in areas outsiders perceive as wilderness . Cultural landscape: the culturally specific images, knowledge, and concepts of the physical landscape that help shape human relations with that landscape. The specific vein with environmental anthropology that studies directly the relationship between humans and natural ecosystems. The study of how people classify things in the world, usually by considering some range or set of meanings. Ethnoscientists aim to describe and understand the conceptual models and rules with which a society operates. The subfield of ethnoscience that studies how people in non-western societies name and codify living things. Often outsiders are unaware of it because it"s in languages they don"t know. Sometimes tek involves domains like healing and shamanism, seemingly very different from science.
