ANT204H1 Lecture Notes - Nature Reserve, Climax Community, Houseplant
Document Summary
Surely natural is natural (2) the social construction of the pristine february 6th, 2013. Activity: someone else s elephant: the social construction of nature. Video: second nature: objectivist versus constructivist ideas of nature. Elephants are social- if elephants have the same emotions that we have to be human, then ideas of killing them in order to preserve the eco system become problematic. Those phenomena are always implicated in social processes. Different knowledge s produce different categories for understanding objective reality of the world. Things that appear natural are constituted: culturally, historically, politically. Human activity is resulting in the savanna extending into areas that were once forested. For example: guinee forestiere is characterized by an originally rich soil on the way to sterilization following the irrational agricultural practices of the inhabitants regional agricultural director, 195. Climax vegetation theories assume: forest is the natural state. Human activity degrades the forest resulting in savanna or irreversible desertification.
