ANTH 100A Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Photokeratitis, Cultural Ecology, Social Darwinism
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The way people use their culture to adapt to particular environments (spradley) How people use the resources available to them and make practical decisions. At the same time, we want to avoid ecological determinism. The idea that because someone is from a particular place (hills or plains, rural or urban, forest or seaside), they have certain "essential" characteristics. Just as we want to avoid presuming certain characteristics on the basis of race, ethnicity, or gender, and ideas of social darwinism (the notion that some racial features indicate greater social "success") All of us have a connection to place, even if we do not have claims to territory as such. Thangmi language (spoken in nepal and india) has 4 verbs that english would translate as. Kyelsa-to come from level or around a natural obstacle. Five types of subsistence or livelihood strategies: hunting and gathering, horticulture/slash-and-burn agriculture, pastoralism (based on shepherding animals) Several can co-exist in the same place and time.
