Chapter 6 Flashcards
(20 cards)
Environmental Anthropology
The field that studies how different societies understand interact with and make changes to the natural world
Cultural landscape not
The culturally specific images knowledge and concepts of the physical landscape that help shape human relations with that landscape
Foodways
Structured beliefs and behaviors surrounding the production distribution and consumption of food
Modes of subsistence
The social relationships and practices necessary for procuring producing and distributing food
Foraging
Obtaining food by searching for it as opposed to growing or raising it
Horticulture
The cultivation of gardens or small fields to meet the basic needs of a household
Swidden agriculture
Farming method in tropical regions in which the farmer slashed and burns a small area of forest to release plant nutrients into the soil
Pastoralism
The practice of human husbandry
Animal husbandry
The breeding care and use of domestic herding animals such as cattle camels goats horses llamas reindeer and yaks
Intensification
Process that increase agricultural yields
Industrial agriculture
The application of industrial principles to farming
Ethnoscience
The study of how people classify things in the world usually by considering some range or set of meaning
Ethnobiology
The sub field of ethnoscience that studies how people in non Western societies name and codify living things
Traditional ecological knowledge
Indigenous ecological knowledge and its relationship with resource management strategy
Carrying capacity
The population an area can support
Green revolution
The transformation of agriculture in the third world beginning in the 1940a through agriculture’s research technology transfer and infrastructure development
Food security
Access to sufficient nutritious food to sustain an active and healthy life
Political ecology
The field if study that focuses on the linkages between political-economic power social inequality and ecological destruction
Nutrition Transition
The combination of changes in diet toward energy dense foods (high in calories fat sugar) and declines in physical activity
Anthropogenic landscapes
Landscapes modified by human action in the past
