ANTHRO 350

Environmental Anthropology

Please note: this is archived course information from 2017 for ANTHRO 350.

Description

An exploration of human-environmental relationships in a variety of cultural contexts. From an anthropological perspective, it considers how people imagine, explain, experience and interact with a range of different sociocultural and physical environments, and how they encode and respond to meaning in their material surroundings. Key themes include cognition, the construction of worldviews, concepts of nature, cultural landscapes, environmental management, colonisation and development.

Availability 2017

Not taught in 2017

Lecturer(s)

TBA

Points

ANTHRO 350: 15 points

Prerequisites

ANTHRO 203 or 30 points passed at Stage II