CULTURAL AND SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Anthropology of Religion, Anthropology of Gender, Anthropological Theory, Cultural Ecology, Culture Change, Economic Anthropology, Global Issues / Contemporary Problems, Linguistic Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, Native American Anthropology, Peasant Societies
• Discuss the challenges faced by the indigenous Tikuna community in western Brazil. What will be an ideal response? • Explain the relationship between the causers of environmental destruction and those that are most affected by it. What will be an ideal response?
• How are small-scale community members so knowledgable about their environments? • What are some of the negative consequences of rapid cultural change?
• In what ways do some argue that economic development does not always have positive effects on people’s lives? • What is the difference between collective and individualistic cultures?
• How does the Kiribati worldview of their effect on the environment contrast to that of industrialized cultures?
• Why are anthropologists concerned with preserving indigenous peoples? • What is world systems theory? • What is modernization theory?
• As of 2010, the demands for water in El Alto have already exceeded the supply, and the problem is getting more acute since some of the water is being sold off to the wealthier residents of La Paz. • In 1916, Gottovi and her colleagues opened the STARworks Center for Creative Enterprise in a Ford Motors factory building.
• Development anthropologists look at the gap between the haves and have-nots in terms of either modernization theory or world systems theory. • When we learn to theorize the perceptions of a specific people and try to coerce the reasons behind those perceptions, we will be well on our way to adopting a multicultural strategy for interacting with diverse peoples, both domestically and abroad.
• Multiculturalism requires the basic anthropological understanding that culturally, different people are not inherently inferior and consequently should not be ignored, excluded, or marginalized. • Ethnographic accounts of the human costs of climate change will serve as a dramatic incentive for leaders in the industrialized world to reassess basic assumptions about climate change, their role in causing it, and their responsibility in fixing it.
• Climate scientists disagree with findings on the cause, intensity, and duration of floods and droughts increasing in the future. • The premier scientific organization for the assessment of climate change is the Intergovernmental Panel on Temporal Change.
• Only in the 19th and 20th centuries was the term Cultural Survival, defined as conducting ongoing projects around the world.
• In partnership with indigenous peoples, Cultural Survival, Inc. advocates for native communities the strengthening of their language and culture, educating their communities about their rights, and fighting marginalization, discrimination, and exploitation.
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