The course focuses on the ecology of human societies –human-environment relationships, with reference to cultural ecology and issues surrounding sustainable development. The ecology of human societies is about connections between ecological and human social, cultural, and organizational processes. Based on selected works of ecological anthropologists, this course focuses on the dynamic relationships between human cultures and their ecological environments. It uses basic concepts of anthropology, including the concept of culture as a dynamic system of learned behaviours and beliefs, to better understand how human beings adapt to and change their physical and social surroundings.
INTENDED AUDIENCE
UG and PG students of Humanities and Social Sciences, Sciences and Engineering
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Ngamjahao Kigpen is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. His areas of research include environmental sociology, political sociology, cultural politics, ethnicity and nationalism in northeast India. He has been contributing research papers to reputed international peer-reviewed journals. He teaches The Study of Society, Environment and Development, Concepts and Ideologies in Social Life, Sociology of Religion, Sociological Perspectives on Modernity, and Research Methods in Sociology at IIT Guwahati.
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Course Details
Week 1: Introduction: Ecology and society; Culture and cultural ecology
Week 2: Cultural ecology and human ecology: Concepts and Meanings
Week 3: Human ecology: Theoretical approach; Ecological anthropology perspectives
Week 4: Models of human ecology; Nature and culture debate
Week 5: Conceptions of natures; Contested domains and boundaries of culture
Week 6: Paradigms in human—environmental relations
Week 7: Nature, environment and belief systems
Week 8: Religion in an age of environmental crisis I
Week 9: Religion in an age of environmental crisis II; Environmental ethics I
Week 10: Environmental ethics II
Week 11: Natural Resource Management
Week 12: Debates on shifting cultivation; Course summary
Books and References
1. Descola, P and Pálsson, G. (Eds.), Nature and Society: Anthropological perspectives, Routledge, London and New York, 1996.
2. Ellen, R, Parkes, P and Bicker, A. (Eds.), Indigenous Environmental Knowledge and its Transformations Critical Anthropological Perspectives, Harwood academic publishers, U.K., 2005.
3. Gottlieb, S. R. (Eds.), This Sacred Earth: Religion, Nature, Environment, Routledge, New York and London, 2004.
4. Rappaport, R. A, Ecology, Meaning, and Religion, North Atlantic Books, Richmond, California, 1979.
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