Cultural and Social Anthropology

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Cultural and Social Anthropology
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• 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

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• 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?
  

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• How are small-scale community members so
  knowledgable about their environments?
• What are some of the negative consequences of
  rapid cultural change?

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• In what ways do some argue that economic
  development does not always have positive effects
  on peoples lives?
• What is the difference between collective and
  individualistic cultures?

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• How does the Kiribati worldview of their effect
  on the environment contrast to that of
  industrialized cultures?

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• Why are anthropologists concerned with preserving
  indigenous peoples?
• What is world systems theory?
• What is modernization theory?

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Only in the 19th and 20th centuries was the term
  Cultural Survival, defined as conducting ongoing
  projects around the world.

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• 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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