Environmental Anthropology

Environmental Anthropology

Course Outline1: Introduction - Approaches in Environmental Anthropology: historical and contemporary questions2 Of the earth, air, fire and water: fertility, fecundity and prosperity3: The Noble Savage debate meets Nature TM Inc: anthropology, ontology, and the politics of representation4: Environmentalism 5: Anthropology and Animal life 6: Writing Week! 7: Nature out of the balance: Equilibrium, Non-equilibrium and anthropologies of the New and Historical ecology8 From conservation to repair? From the anthropology of National Parks to the green grab 9 Anthropology of Climate (and of its Change)