ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Marvin Harris, Roy Rappaport, Ecological Anthropology
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Very sophisticated and detailed and terminology system (indigenous do not classify similar to us. Ethno ecology is widely used: archaeology. Julian steward theory of culture change (1955) American anthropologist , rebellious against boazian tradition, evolution theories should be brought back into anthropology. Difficult to grasp bc his work is scattered, started synthesizing his work. Study of human interaction in cultures w/in their environment. Concept of adaptation (changing or making adjustments to react or respond quickly to environmental change) Different from biological changing (takes a lot of time) Local changes could lead to different evolutionary paths , no preordained path that societies had to follow, it was open to history (no utopia, dystopia etc) Have to look at the nature of the environment. Did his research with shoshone ppl had a simple social structure small bands, minimal societies operating in marginal environments. What are they using, indigenous or external instruments.
