ANTH 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Natural Environment, Pastoralism, Slash-And-Burn

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 203
• Professor: Charles Mather

Document Summary

You should be able to: distinguish between how humans and other animals adapt to their environments, identify, describe, discuss, and analyse different types of production, hunting and gathering, horticulture, intensive agriculture, pastoralism, industrialisation. Most-important dimensions to human-land relations: natural environment provides the resources for life, we experience the environment in terms of challenges or problems that we need to overcome, we are social creatures work together to solve problems. First dimension: natural environment provides the resources for life, we create and utilise technologies to extract from these resources what we need to live, e. g. , heat, shelter, nutrition, water, wood, metal, we transform natural resources into products. Second dimension: we experience the environment in terms of challenges or problems that we need to overcome, scarce resources, inclement weather, poor soils, abundance of pathogenic agents, to solve problems, we alter our environments.