ANT 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Enclosure, Human Behavioral Ecology, Conservation Biology
27 Apr 2017
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What is conservation: conservation biology has been an interdisciplinary crisis-driven field , rise of environmentalism in the u. s. (1960s, but was conservation new to humanity, conservation seeks to protect natural resources and environment, preservation seeks to set aside. Multiple dimensions: science (social and natural, economic, ethical, social movement, institutional/policy, international affairs. How do anthropologists study conservation: multi sited ethnography, ethnoscience: the study of knowledge systems, human behavioral ecology, archaeology: human environmental impact and response in the past. Western philosophy: humans are separate from nature, humans have some special control over nature. Mayan cultures: according to itzaj belief system, humans and nature do not occupy separate realms, forest spirits monitor people"s behavior toward plants and animals, for the zapotec, maize has a soul. Andean worldview: nature is alive, worthy of respect and sacred places are full of spirits, collaboration between earth, water, and people to reproduce life (rocks, glaciers, mountains, and soils also alive)
