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Week 1: Introduction: Ecology and society; Culture and cultural ecology
Week 2: Cultural ecology and human ecology: Concepts and Meanings
Week 3: Human ecology: Theoretical approach; Ecological anthropology perspectives
Week 4: Models of human ecology; Nature and culture debate
Week 5: Conceptions of natures; Contested domains and boundaries of culture
Week 6: Paradigms in human—environmental relations
Week 7: Nature, environment and belief systems
Week 8: Religion in an age of environmental crisis I
Week 9: Religion in an age of environmental crisis II; Environmental ethics I
Week 10: Environmental ethics II
Week 11: Natural Resource Management
Week 12: Debates on shifting cultivation; Course summary
The course focuses on the ecology of human societies –human-environment relationships, with reference to cultural ecology and issues surrounding sustainable development. The ecology of human societies is about connections between ecological and human social, cultural, and organizational processes. Based on selected works of ecological anthropologists, this course focuses on the dynamic relationships between human cultures and their ecological environments. It uses basic concepts of anthropology, including the concept of culture as a dynamic system of learned behaviours and beliefs, to better understand how human beings adapt to and change their physical and social surroundings.
INTENDED AUDIENCE : UG and PG students of Humanities and Social Sciences, Sciences and Engineering
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