• 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 6: Historical Ecology and the Anthropocene

Class agenda

  • Sustainability Game: Arms Crossed
  • Grant discussion: Wenner-Gren Q4
  • Lectures
  • Reading discussion

Reading

  • Balée, W., 2006. The research program of historical ecology. Annu. Rev. Anthropol., 35(1), pp.75-98.
  • Davis, H. and Todd, Z., 2017. On the Importance of a Date, or Decolonizing the Anthropocene. “, 16(4), pp.761-780.
  • Haraway, D., Ishikawa, N., Gilbert, S.F., Olwig, K., Tsing, A.L. and Bubandt, N., 2016. Anthropologists are talking–about the Anthropocene. Ethnos, 81(3), pp.535-564.
  • Cassino, M.F., Alves, R.P., Levis, C., Watling, J., Junqueira, A.B., Shock, M.P., Ferreira, M.J., Caetano Andrade, V.L., Furquim, L.P., Coelho, S.D. and Tamanaha, E.K., 2019. Ethnobotany and ethnoecology applied to historical ecology. Methods and techniques in ethnobiology and ethnoecology, pp.187-208.
  • Wolverton, S., Figueroa, R.M. and Armstrong, C.G., 2023. Integrating historical ecology and environmental justice. Journal of Ethnobiology, 43(1), pp.57-68.

Media

  • Outside/In: Tempest in a Teacup
  • Outside/In: The Mississippi Cyborg

Recommended

  • McClenachan et al. 2015; Balee and Erikson 2006; Haraway 2015; Mueggler 1998; Denevan 1992; Cronon 1996

Assignments due for class discussion

  • Wenner-Gren Q4