ANTH 210

ANTH 210
Intro to Environmental Anthropology
Autumn 2006

Course Description

This course surveys the key anthropological concepts, findings, and debates of environmental anthropology—an interdisciplinary field that bridges the social sciences (especially cultural anthropology), biological sciences (especially ecology), and aspects of the humanities. The unifying theme is the cross-cultural and historical variation in human-environment interactions, and how these can be understood from the holistic perspective of anthropology.

The course consists of lectures (MWF), many of them by faculty and graduate student guests, and weekly discussion meetings (“sections”) with a graduate teaching assistant. The Class schedule page details the lecture topics, themes, and associated readings, as well as the due dates for many assignments (which are described more fully on other pages on this web site).  The readings consist of portions of two books (available in the textbook section of the U Bookstore) plus a number of scholarly and popular articles on Electronic Reserve (see the Course readings page on this web site for further details).