ANTH 322 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Roy Rappaport, Ecological Anthropology, Andrew P. Vayda
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The old ecological anthropology and its units of analysis: ecological anthropology 1960s: functionalism, systems theory, focus on negative feedback, cultural practices & beliefs in enabling human populations to optimize adaptations to environments. Issues for the new ecological anthropology: old ecological anthropology: indigenous groups have traditional ways of categorizing resources, regulating their use, and preserving the environment, ethnoecology: any society"s traditional set of environmental perceptions. Biodiversity conservatism: conservation policy can benefit from use of a flexible learning process model rather than a rigid blueprint strategy. Linkage methodology: high-tech research methods, various recent multilevel, multisite, multi-time research projects. Linkages also refers to cooperation by people with common research interests in the effort to generate a fund of data. Longitudinal: systematic intercommunity comparison, multiple sample populations, from same region, from different regions, from different countries. Andringitra: mountain are is a long established reserve in the extreme south of betsileo homeland, ethnic diversity around andringitra: different and less problematic sort than at ranomafana.