AN100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Environmentally Friendly, Outsourcing, Intensive Animal Farming
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Way humans acquire their livelihoods in different ecological environments. Constrained but not limited by ecology and available resources. Focus of the sub field of economic anthropology. Horticulture or gardening, slash and burn *extensive agriculture. They are not to be considered using an evolutionary perspective as higher" or lower". Each subsistence type has its reticular social organization. The life forms and their adaptations within its environment sphere. Cultural ecology the way people use their culture to adapt to particular environments. The physical environment that people experience through their senses. The cultural environment represents peoples cultural classification of their physical environment. How would a tourist experience/classify the kalahari as opposed to the dobe hoansi. It usually reflects their adaptive needs and cultural values. The number of people a given environment can sustain based on level of technology. Point at which more energy is expense in production, but returns are less. Result of overuse of resources - land, oil, ocean, etc.
