• 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 11: Resource access: Territorality and Frontiers

Class agenda

  • Grant discussion: Broader Impacts and Wenner-Gren Question 6
  • Lectures
  • Reading discussion

Reading

  • Blurton Jones, N.G., 1987. Tolerated theft, suggestions about the ecology and evolution of sharing, hoarding and scrounging. Social Science Information, 26(1), pp.31-54.
  • Cashdan, E., 1983. Territoriality among human foragers: ecological models and an application to four Bushman groups. Current anthropology, 24(1), pp.47-66.
  • Acheson, J.M. and Gardner, R.J., 2004. Strategies, conflict, and the emergence of territoriality: the case of the Maine lobster industry. American Anthropologist, 106(2), pp.296-307.
  • Tsing, A.L., 2003. Natural resources and capitalist frontiers. Economic and Political Weekly, pp.5100-5106.
  • Rasmussen, M.B. and Lund, C., 2018. Reconfiguring frontier spaces: The territorialization of resource control. World Development, 101, pp.388-399.
  • Netting, R.M., 1982. Territory, property, and tenure. Behavioral and social science research: A national resource, pp.446-502.

Media

  • Outside/In: The New Space Race
  • Planet Money: The battle for Puerto Rico’s beaches

Recommended

  • Weitzel and Codding 2020; Acheson 1975

Assignments due for class discussion

  • Broader Impacts and Wenner-Gren Question 6