ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Homeostasis, Roy Rappaport, Carrying Capacity
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Ecological anthropology: biological, primate ecology, human adaptability, behavioural ecology, archaeology, paleoecology, linguistics, ethnoecology, cultural, cultural ecology, human ecosystems. How we adapt to various environments (mountainous, jungle, desert, etc. ) All part of the environment and interact with it. With receding glaciation; archaeological differences; resulting in particular types of faunas being available in certain areas; different types of subsistence techniques in these specific environments. Ethnoscience: developed in 50s and 60s; looked at indigenous classification systems (how do indigenous societies classify their environment, obviously not linnean) Hundreds and hundreds of species are classified and named in native lexicon; very detailed and in-depth classification system. Julian steward: theory of culture change (1955: trained within boasian school; but rebellious against traditional boasian thought in that he believed evolutionary theories should be brought back to cultural anthropology (cultural evolutionism) People"s relationship to land; how it"s used; how it"s lived on: population. Density, dispersal, quantity: technology, social organization of production, territoriality/warfare, stratification, sanctity.
