ANTH 100A Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Photokeratitis, Cultural Ecology, Snowmobile
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The way people use their culture to adapt to a particular environment. The way human adaptation are linked to culture but still have broader effects. One photo with someone with husky dogs - seems earlier. Other photos with snow mobile - later/more evolved. At the same time, we want to avoid. Idea that because someone is from a particular place (hills or plains, rural or urban, forest or seaside, mainland or island), they have certain essential" characteristics . Just as we want to avoid presuming certain characteristics on the basis of race, ethnicity, or gender and ideas of social darwinism (the notion that some racial features indicate greater social success") Just as your personal identity shapes who you are, your experience of place and knowledge of its ecologies shapes who you are. This is because ideas about belonging to a place" and how we use environmental resources" and learned behaviours. Marking territory and naming it are expressions of belonging.
