• Course Overview
  • Course Resources
  • Week 1: Introduction and history of theory in Ecological Anthropology
  • Week 2: Collective action and cooperation
  • Week 3: Common pool resources
  • Week 4: Social-relational approaches
  • Week 5: Networks and Resource Management
  • Week 6: Historical Ecology and the Anthropocene
  • Week 7: Signaling theory and symbolic capital
  • Week 8: Ethnoecology
  • Week 9: Cultural domain analysis and Decolonizing ecological knowledge
  • Week 10: Human behavioral ecology
  • Week 11: Resource access: Territorality and Frontiers
  • Week 12: Resource access: Dispossession and Rights
  • Week 13: Political ecology - conservation and science
  • Week 14: Resilience and complex adaptive systems

ANTH722: Ecological Anthropology

Week 1: Introduction and history of theory in Ecological Anthropology

Class agenda

  • Course overview
  • Sustainability Game: Frames
  • Lectures

Reading

  • Orlove, B.S., 1980. Ecological anthropology. Annual review of anthropology, pp.235-273.
  • Kottak, C.P., 1999. The new ecological anthropology. American Anthropologist, 101(1), pp.23-35.
  • Abel, T. and Stepp, J.R., 2003. A new ecosystems ecology for anthropology. Conservation Ecology, 7(3).
  • Orr, Y., Lansing, J.S. and Dove, M.R., 2015. Environmental anthropology: systemic perspectives. Annual review of anthropology, 44(1), pp.153-168.

Media

  • Radiolab: The Good Show
  • Radiolab: Darwinvaganza

Recommended

Harris 1992; Dove 1985; Sahlins 1972; Caviglia-Harris 2005; Steward 1955; Netting 1993; Rappaport 1967; Boserup 1965, 1976; Kuznar 2001; West 2020